A strong, rigid skeleton is part of the blueprint ... and are integral to giving birds the strength and rigidity needed to fly,'' he explained. ''There seems to have been a lot of experimentation ...

Researchers have created a pigeon-inspired robot with bird-like reflexes, enabling it to stay stable in turbulent conditions.

“The new fossil provides unprecedented insight into the pattern and timing by which the specialised features of the brain of ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

Those studies, published in the journal Current Biology, show the flying lizard had a 2.5m (8ft) wingspan. Natalia Jagielska Diagram of the pterosaur skeleton ... with birds, and that's hugely ...

Based on the team’s reconstruction of the brain, Field says the cognitive abilities and flying capacity of Navaornis were probably inferior to those of most living birds. The portions of the ...