Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The finding ...

One of the biggest debates in paleontology is how avian animals began to fly. The two major competing ideas are the descriptively named “ground-upward origin” hypothesis and the “trees-down scenario.” ...

Grasshoppers in South Korea may be on high alert, after scientists created a robotic version of an enemy from the insects’ distant past. In a series of experiments, researchers scared grasshoppers ...

Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how ...