Penguins may look charmingly awkward on land, but new research shows their bodies are finely tuned for powerful, efficient ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying look almost effortless.

Researchers have found that macaroni penguins possess unusually large wing and hindlimb muscles, boosting swimming efficiency and balance. The study, published in The Anatomical Record, solves a ...

Most of a bird’s power production for flight occurs in the breast muscles. This mass of meat — pectoralis muscle for the powerful downstroke on top of the supracoracoideus muscle for the upstroke — is ...

New Haven, Conn. — The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight. A new study suggests that ...

For the past 25 years, Professor of Engineering and Biology Sharon Swartz and Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16 have been fascinated by animal flight. The two professors have ...