(CN) — In a new study, researchers say soaring birds like eagles, vultures and falcons that can glide effortlessly by flapping their wings only occasionally have evolved to use their lungs to aid in ...

Soaring birds — like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures — can stay aloft in the air seemingly forever, rarely flapping their wings. They glide along rising air currents in a way that has ...

Researchers report evidence of fossilized lung structures in an early bird that reveals structural similarities with modern birds. Evolutionary developments that supported flight include ...

Microscopic plastic pollutants drifting through the air are lodging in the lungs of birds, a new University of Texas at Arlington study finds. Researchers worldwide are increasingly alarmed by how ...

A new study has found that microplastics are accumulating in birds' lungs, adding to concerns about the prevalence of these particles in our air and food. Shane DuBay, a member of the University of ...

DuBay's team studied 56 different wild birds from 51 distinct species, all sampled from the Tianfu airport in western China. They collected lung samples from each bird and performed two types of ...

According to research from scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington and partners in China, plastic particles floating in the air are getting stuck in wild birds' lungs, making them sick and ...

Scans of fossils have cracked the mystery of pterosaur power. The biggest animals ever to fly drew their energy from bird-like lungs that they evolved 70 million years before the first birds took to ...

Large quantities of microplastics and nanoplastics that increasingly saturate the air we breathe are lodging in birds' lungs and making them sick, according to new research authored by a biologist ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for combating avian flu and respiratory infections in humans, including ...