To get the desired effect of an arrow – something pointy stuck into someone that you don’t like – all you need is a pointed stick and something to launch it. So what are all those feathers doing on ...

It's even more spectacular than Ötzi the Iceman's arrows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A spectacularly preserved arrow from ...

To improve accuracy, bow designers at New Archery Products, Forest Park, Ill. ( www.newarchery.com), devised a mechanism that drops the arrowrest from the flight path of the arrow's fletching ...

For all the place that birds seem to hold in human culture and thought, it’s not really the creatures themselves that grip our imagination, but their plumage. Feathers symbolize flight (in both senses ...