Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together ...

The summer solstice had barely passed and we were within the first week of July when I saw them. The first day I noticed what I take to be a sign of Autumn: multiple family groups of European ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SANTA CRUZ — A murmuration of European starlings pulsates over houses on Quarry Lane in Santa Cruz as the sky is painted in warm hues by the sunset. The starlings, occasionally joined by a few ...

(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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...