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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's that time of year when you might glance up on your evening commute to see a swirling mass of starlings soaring through the ...

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, ...

Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

A large swarm of European Starlings banded together to create a murmuration in Murray, Utah. These birds have been sighted in Utah several times this winter. Starlings create these flocks to protect ...

Internationally acclaimed Danish photographer Søren Solkær released his ninth photographic monograph, Starling, just after Christmas. The sequel to Solkær’s best-selling book, Black Sun, Starling ...

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 ...