On a winter evening outside Rome, a cloud of roughly 3,000 starlings folded in on itself, split around a diving silhouette, and snapped back together in under two seconds. The silhouette was not a ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explain why starlings flock in mesmerizing murmurations and the science behind it. Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 ...

Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

Have you ever glanced up at the sky in late summer or the fall and seen a huge flock of birds create the most amazing shapes? Seemingly moving as one, the shape swoops, twists, and rotates, ...

(via SciShow) From starling flocks, to fish schools, to human mosh pits, plenty of animals start moving weird when there's enough to form a swarm. And both physicists and biologists are still trying ...