The freely flapping wingtips react and flex to wind gusts, reducing drag and combating the effects of turbulence. The airplane's flapping wing tips are inspired by the albatross.

Archaeopteryx fossils suggest the dino-birds were capable of flapping their wings in flight.

An international team of scientists has turned to swifts for inspiration to produce a bird-inspired drone with flapping wings that can hover, dart, glide and dive, all while weighing the same as ...

The flapping drone prepares to take flight A drone with flapping wings that can make quick turns like a bird could one day be used to monitor crowds as well as crops in fields. The drone consists ...

Scientists have found large Andean condors are incredibly efficient, only flapping their wings 1% of the time they are in the sky.

Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The ...

The most mystifying — and gripping — image is a mass of helmeted cyclists wearing giant silvery-blue flapping wings, pedaling around in two huge circles.

A new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.

But a radically redesigned turbine with flapping wings instead of spinning blades might finally solve both of those problems.

And ever since Leonardo da Vinci sketched the first human-powered ornithopter in 1485, humans have tried to take to the air like birds by flapping their wings.

The tiny bird captured in this stunning slow motion video appears to soar through the air while at times not even flapping its wings.