From Angry Birds to Subway Surfers, the early 2010s were filled with simple, addictive mobile games that captured the ...

About 150 million years ago, in a coastal lagoon in what is now southern Germany, the oldest known bird gobbled up food with a beak built for efficient eating. It’s finely tuned mouth anatomy, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Frigatebirds can remain airborne for days at a time without ...

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A bird shocked New Zealand journalist Jess Tyson when it flew into her face as she filmed a news segment. Tyson, who works for the show “Te Ao with Moana” on New Zealand’s Whakaata Māori channel, ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of inspiration for humans ...

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A record-breaking 1 billion birds were in flight over the eastern U.S. overnight on Oct. 8 according to a nonprofit group that tracks the fall migration. Among estimated the 1.25 billion birds, 5 ...

Millions of migratory birds are currently flying over Southwest Florida, with peak migration still to come. Weather radar systems are detecting the massive flocks. The peak of the fall migration ...

Millions of birds are expected to fly over the U.S. to reach their migratory destinations, and a sizeable fraction of them will pass through Michigan after the sun goes down on Sept. 29. Late on ...

The skies over Indiana are packed with birds right now. We’ve entered the peak three weeks of fall bird migration, when hundreds of millions of birds move south each night. If you’ve noticed more ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...