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Israel’s Urban Aeronautics is talking to potential partners and investors about developing a four-seat “flying car” based on the Cormorant vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned transport ...

Galápagos cormorants are the only flightless cormorant species. Their wings are too small to lift their heavy bodies. To trace the genetic changes responsible for the birds’ shrunken wings, Alejandro ...

You might have noticed large black birds flying in V formations along Lake Michigan. Some are certainly migrating Canada geese. But many of the birds that might appear to be geese, and that are ...

Changes to the genes that shortened the Galapagos cormorant's wings are the same genes that go awry in a group of human bone disorders characterized by stunted arms and legs, suggests new research.

Humans and birds have a rich and complex history together. Some birds, like the carrier pigeon or the bald eagle, have stronger ties to us than most. The cormorant, believe it or not, is one of these ...