Butterfly wing patterns may work as a visual illusion against predators. Researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Essex tested how high-contrast patterns and flight movement ...

Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving ...

Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why ...

A year-long study has observed millions of birds migrating across the North Sea to measure the threat of offshore wind farms. View on euronews ...

The optical illusion inside butterfly wings is similar to the barber-pole illusion. When looking at the red-and-white striped ...

By Marta Serafinko Sept 30 (Reuters) - When a bird lunges at a butterfly in mid-flight, it may see something that is not ...

A newly discovered four-winged dinosaur from China suggests that dinosaur wings evolved twice independently in different ...

A Miami airport passenger has been charged with smuggling goods after authorities allegedly found 10 live birds concealed in ...

A bird attacking a butterfly will often find its beak snapping at thin air. According to new research, that split-second miss ...

A four-winged dinosaur from China, Norellraptor barsboldi, belongs to a group that built its flight features in a different ...

When about 3-million Barn Swallows come home to roost in KwaZulu-Natal from this month they can do so more safely now thanks ...