Long before birds fluttered their wings and took their maiden flight, it was pterosaurs - the distant cousins of birds - that ...
Their study explores how microbiome diversity impacts the birds' health, body condition, and ornamental ...
Take-off is a vital part of powered flight which likely constrains the size of birds, yet extinct pterosaurs are known to ...
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A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...
Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. Nate Kohl and Peter Stone.
Another strain of bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Cornwall, with a mass cull of the birds ordered by the government. All birds at the St Ives premises will now be humanely ...
Birds cannot survive without breathing, and their naturally high metabolic rate increases their oxygen demand. Some deep-diving birds can go over 20 minutes without breathing, while a Hummingbird may ...
November marked 50 years since Lucy was found. Her partial skeleton upended several assumptions about the course of human ...
Birds are a highly successful class of animals that have colonized every continent and evolved into the roughly ten thousand species we know today. Their advanced reproductive strategy is just one of ...