Scientists found that when birds lose the ability to fly, their skeletons change first, while feathers take much longer to ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic ...

Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

the birds of planet Earth know how to shake their tail feathers. Now it seems they’ve been putting on more of a visual display than anyone realized as birds-of-paradise have been found to glow.

The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...