Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

Airplane wings are modeled after bird wings. The bones and muscles of ... a special ridge of bone that runs down the center of the wide sternum, or breastbone. The tail feathers are used for ...

Hummingbirds have a ball and socket joint in their wings that allows them to move their wings in a figure-8 pattern ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous ... Light-morph adult: Head, back, and wings are brown, throat is white, wing tips dark, dark tail with 1 wide white band. A second, thinner band may be ...