“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick,” Charles Darwin told a fellow scientist in a letter in 1860. The showiness of the peacock tail initially struck him ...

Male peacocks shake their brilliantly-hued, long tail feathers to attract females in a courtship display known as “train-rattling.” But scientists had never closely examined the biomechanics behind ...

Scientists get peacock feathers to emit laser light after adding dye and green pulses, revealing surprising biophotonic ...

American researchers have discovered nanostructures in peacock feathers that align and scatter light, similar to laser beams. This scattering of light makes the peacock’s tail so brightly blue and ...

Male peacocks fan their colourful rear feathers and shake them, but somehow keep their plumes' iridescent circles, or eyespots, nearly still, like a fixed stare. Peacock tail feathers beat on average ...

A peacock’s tail is so ostentatious that you could easily miss other parts of its anatomy that, on any other bird, would be unmissable. On the heads of both male and female peafowl, there’s a crest of ...

Wildlife activists have raised suspicion that there is a possibility of the peacocks being poached for their feathers. On speaking to a few of the vendors with peacock tail feathers at Navi Mumbai, it ...