Steve Zack is coordinator of Bird Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Thanksgiving is upon us, as families and friends gather for food, drink and conversation.

image: Scientists develop new index to understand how ancestors of modern birds used their wings based on the strength of the coracoid bone (shown in red) and the animal’s body mass view more ...

What’s more, the new findings might elucidate a feature of bird anatomy. They suggest that the hand wing, one of the two major wing structures, may be specialized to generate leading-edge ...

It is widely acknowledged the anatomy of bird wings is similar to the hands of Triassic theropod dinosaurs but cause of the debate was which digits stemmed the evolutional growth in bird wings.

Leg-wing cooperation in baby birds, dinosaurs is key transition in origin of flight X-ray analysis finds that young birds can flap like adults despite rudimentary flight anatomy ...

Bird wings and legs evolve independently, while bat wing and leg proportions are integrated. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02572-9 ...