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 ...
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 ...
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 ...