First blue feathers found on a fossilized bird. An ancient relative of today’s rollers with a deep blue hue adds to our understanding of nature’s prehistoric palette.

This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers The magpie-sized Yuanchuavis probably wasn’t a strong flyer, but it did dress to impress. By Kate Baggaley ...

Wilson's bird-of-paradise has unusual curled tail feathers. Serhan Oksay / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. A fancy tail doesn’t have to be exceptionally long — it can also be exceptionally ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...

Fossil bird with fancy tail feathers longer than its body Date: September 16, 2021 Source: Field Museum Summary: Peacock tails are just one example of how evolution walks a line between favoring ...

Long, elaborate tail feathers can help attract a mate, but they’re not especially useful-- they’re less aerodynamic than a short fan of feathers, so birds that have them tend not to live in ...

Some birds are so extraordinary in their appearance, you might assume they’ve been digitally rendered or pulled from the ...

The bird had tail feathers that were more than 150 per cent ... was a small bird, about the size of a blue jay, ... giants This is the latest move from the Google-owned social video giant, ...

The new ancient bird fossil showing a pair of elongated tail feathers. Image: M. Wang et al., 2021/Current Biology Introducing Yuanchuavis, an extinct bird that lived 120 million years ago in what ...

The strangest method, though, may be anting, in which some 200 bird species rub ants in their feathers and skin. Blue jays in particular are fond of anting.

Shimmery. Spiky. Shaggy. Soft. Feathers are what make birds so alluring—but these photographs remind us that they also tell a story about the science of evolution.

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...