In many ways, the sound of crickets chirping is the sound of nature. But crickets don’t have vocal cords. The sound that is ultimately heard is the result of a far more complex process involving the ...

There are many different species of kingfisher, and those that eat fish hunt by repeatedly diving head-first into the water when they spot tasty prey without suffering brain injuries like concussions.

The tiny black-backed dwarf kingfisher of Borneo is an absolute rainbow of colors. Dagger-like beaks range in color from dark brown to bright yellow, red or orange. Many of the beaks are sharp, narrow ...

The kingfisher has the poise of an Olympic diver. It catches food by plunging head-first into water, wings outstretched and beak pointed keenly at an unsuspecting minnow or stickleback swimming below.

One of Japan’s greatest engineering challenges was solved thanks to ornithological observation: this is how they copied the design of a bird’s beak for their bullet trains. Laitche / Wikimedia Commons ...