Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can ...

Now two universities have gotten together to make an interesting robot duplicate. MIT and EPFL in Switzerland have now built ...

A flapping-wing robot that can both swim underwater and fly through the air is helping scientists rethink how diving birds manage life in two ...

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Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The finding ...

As I look out of my office window and watch the heart-stopping acrobatics of feeding swifts, it's not difficult to see why so many aircraft designers find inspiration in nature - from birds to bats to ...

A new study into the flight characteristics of condors — the largest soaring birds on Earth — finds that they rarely flap their wings once airborne. Condors are capable of flying for over a hundred ...