A bird preserved in a museum drawer for years has begun to draw attention after closer inspection revealed an unusual tail ...

New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds ...

A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.

Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body.

The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles -- precursors of ...

Scientists discovered that crow feathers contain hidden ultraviolet communication patterns that humans cannot see.

Feathers define birds. Other critters, like insects, fly; but no other critter wears feathers. And what amazing structures they are, these feathers. They allow birds to fly, perform mating displays, ...

For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are pure protein, shedding and ...

The microscopic structure of the feathers of the eastern bluebird, a type of North American thrush, has inspired the creation of a simple-to-produce, scalable and robust novel synthetic material that ...