Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close relatives.

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a ...

Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.

It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

Foraging birds are commonly seen on ... and upperparts are often scaly looking due to pale feather fringes. The male’s combination of glossy black body and brown head is diagnostic.

And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely ... we don’t know much about them,” says Chris Brown, curator of birds at the Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium, who studies the ...

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

Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...