Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

Like clockwork, hundreds of nesting herons, ibis and egrets are back at Cypress wetlands. A boardwalk provides front-row ...

Humans aren’t the only ones who are prone to road rage. Scientists have found that certain songbirds in the Galapagos behave ...

Biofluorescence by itself isn't big news; it shows up in plenty of animals, including humans (our teeth fluoresce under UV ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

Then, they viewed the birds through yellow goggles that filter the light and make the ... and they’ll just have these huge patches of extremely bright feathers that your light is just gleaming off of.

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Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the ...

This rare bird stands roughly six inches or 15 cm tall and weighs less than four ounces. Plains-wanderers have bright yellow beaks, legs and eyes. They have tan, white and black feathers that form ...

Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with the heavens and all spiritual realms. Our guardian angels scatter feathers ...