flight

Researchers across disciplines are adopting high-tech tools to better understand the kinematics and behaviors behind insect flight.

Researchers are pulling from video games, sports broadcasting, meteorology, and even missile guidance technology to better investigate how insects have mastered flight.

Researchers are getting creative to understand flight behavior in the fast-moving and tiny animals.

Neuronal signal timing is crucial for muscle coordination during flight.

This ancient bird has a modern tail bone.

The evolution of different ways of flying in birds affected wing range of motion, but not wing shape.

The birds also decrease their heart rate and chill their blood to maintain flight in hypoxic conditions.

Carbon dioxide pumped into a bright chamber mimics a breathing host for the pest to target.

Developers made an insect-like robot with two pairs of wings.

Watch a hawk close in on a target.

Paleontologists find a fossil of a dinosaur, Ambopteryx longibrachium, with membranous wings, in China.

A robot model of a winged but flightless dinosaur suggests the dinosaur may have flapped its wings while moving on the ground.

High-tech imaging of the Jurassic creature’s humerus and ulna bones reveals it flapped its wings to evade predators.

Dampening the immune response to stay up in the air may have helped bats become tolerant to viral infections.

A visual motion-sensing brain region found in all four-limbed vertebrates displays unique properties in Anna’s hummingbirds.

Duke’s Steven Vogel studied how plants and animals adapt to the physical world.

A newly discovered relative of Velociraptor had abundant plumage and birdlike wings.  

Researchers describe a small species that may have soared through Jurassic skies on membranous wings like those of bats and flying squirrels.

Downsizing dinosaurs was key to the evolution of birds, a study shows.