Well, it's been months since I ran off to ASB and promised more blog posts, so it seems I should give an update. I have had to focus o...

I will be resuming the Dragon series on Aero Evo soon.  I am currently at the annual American Society of Biomechanics conference (ASB 2012)....

As my previous teaser post suggested, I am going to spend some time on dragons over the next week.  This is mostly because dragons are fun, ...

I have a soft spot for old texts, and Google Books, BHL, and others are a real boon in that they make some older texts available for web bro...

The photograph at left was taken by David Hone at the Pittsburgh Zoo.  They are actually quite common as wild individuals in that surrou...

Previously I wrote a bit about the wonders of aquaflying in penguins .  This time, I thought it would be fun to write briefly on some of the...

I have a special treat this evening.  Colin Palmer has been kind enough to write a guest post on the relative performance advantages and dyn...

A recent paper by Dickerson et al. in PNAS explains how mosquitoes are able to fly effectively in rainy conditions (remember: many of them ...