Nature has had 3.8 billion years of evolution to refine and perfect designs and processes for survival—everything from the design of a bird's wing to how seeds pollinate. In contrast, humans have only ...

Bird wing shape -- a proxy for long-distance flying ability, or dispersal -- is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world, according to biologists. You can know a lot ...

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...