Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

Flight has evolved four times in the history of life on Earth: in birds, bats, pterosaurs, and insects. The first three groups of animals evolved their wings from arms, making these wings ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from ... Unlike ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

IN his interesting article, Dr. O. Sotavalta 1 discusses the estimation of the wing-stroke frequency of insects by their audible note. This method is older than he ...

A red-naped ibis wandering the Char Bagdanga in Chapainawabganj. A striking medium-sized bird native to South Asia, it is found predominantly in India and parts of Southeast Asia.

Prized as game birds and reared for their meat and eggs, these stout-bodied birds often have short, rounded wings because they ... roots, and insects. Some gallinaceous birds, like the turkey ...

Insects are vital to every ecosystem. They pollinate plants, decompose plant and animal matter, and are themselves a source of food. Birds alone are estimated to eat 400 to 500 million tons of ...

Nudds described this equation in a 2007 paper published in the Journal of Avian Biology, in which he describes the scaling of bird wing parameters with respect to body mass. But in this ...

They use their wings to swim underwater instead ... are carnivores and eat animals and other birds. Many other birds eat insects. Cold-blooded – Animals which become colder or hotter depending ...