A packed airplane was forced to make an emergency landing after two swans smashed into it and punctured the fuselage, ...

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?

Event details and research efforts The viewing event will take place on Saturday ... radio frequency identification tags on the birds’ legs, helping us detect how often the tagged birds return ...

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It’s taken no time at all for birds to discover this natural environment and take full advantage of it ... herring gulls and choughs too. Off the coast of Co. Kerry the iconic Little Skellig ...

For 16 years, the Buffalo National River has denied explorers access to Arkansas’s longest cave and hundreds of others. Some ...

I found big adventure and warm weather in these national-park units spread across the Southeast and Southwest ...

“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 ...

Mallards over the 30 percent farm-raised DNA threshold are showing poor migration habits The author's drake mallard and three ...

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 ...