Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail ... a trait like a big fancy tail an ‘honest signal ...

The unique combination of a short tail fan and two long feathers, known as a pintail, is seen in some modern birds, such as sunbirds ... "Scientists call a trait like a big fancy tail an 'honest ...

A 115-million-year-old fossilized bird with a pair of long, ribbon-like tail feathers is the oldest bird ever found in Brazil. It was about the size of a hummingbird, and it likely boasted bright ...

The two long tail feathers, at 150% the total length of its body, are Yuanchuavis’s most distinctive physical trait. Importantly, however, the bird also had a pintail—the combination of the ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

Baminornis lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx but it has a short tail like those of modern birds, pushing back the date of this evolutionary innovation by 20 million years. “A short tail is ...