Gliding Flight

If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you are imagining is not a dinosaur, it's from a group of flying reptiles called the pterosaurs. These animals are remarkable in their own right: they were the first ver...

Weighing as much as a chihuahua, the colugo is an evolutionary anomaly that glides through the Southeast Asian forests. But don't confuse it for a bat or monkey.

Re-analysis of a decades-old fossil provides the first evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal.

Francis Rogallo's invention would have brought returning space vehicles in for a runway landing, instead of an ocean splashdown

The feathers may have helped dinosaurs frighten and flush out prey.

A key genetic mutation—harmful in humans—may have opened the sky to bats

Fun activities for celebrating National Paper Airplane Day every May 26th. Fold a cool paper airplane and challenge a friend to a contest.

Virgin Galactic successfully carried out its first spaceflight in nearly two years Thursday, the company said, after an "enhancement period" to make safety upgrades to its fleet.

How these gliders keep level flight is different from the stability of airplanes.

Bats are better at flying than birds are. I can hear all you bird fanatics out there revving your engines, but that's not just my personal opinion (ok, it mostly is). Still, there are some so…

A series of experiments using paper airplanes reveals new aerodynamic effects, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings enhance our understanding of flight stability and could inspire new types of flying robots and small drones.

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Bats often hang upside down when they sleep instead of sitting right side up or lying down — why?

Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers