Its brain works out the trigonometry of your hand to ensure the best escape trajectory. Muscles on the outside of its chest ...

In the three-point attitude and descending straight ahead, you are utterly ignorant of anything that lies in front of you.

Cabin crew, prepare for takeoff.” Have you ever noticed what flight attendants do right after this message from the cockpit?

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“So this bird was a foot-propelled pursuit diver. It used its legs to propel itself underwater ... after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck off the coast of what’s now Mexico 66 million ...

But sometimes they have to move around and that’s when counter-current heat exchange shines. The arteries and veins in bird legs are closely intertwined. Blood leaving the heart has been warmed ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...