Researchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure that ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Few people have seen the spruce grouse, with its have striking plumage: red combs like giant fake eyelashes on top of the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Rainbow lorikeets are sweet-natured, vibrantly brilliant, long-lived, medium-sized parrots that get just over a foot long from the beak to the tail feathers. They are busybodies who like to be in the ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

and they have white outer tail feathers on a long dark tail. Adult chaffinches and birds with their first year plumage are duller in non-breeding plumage though not as dull as the females.

Francesco Veronesi from Italy / CC BY-SA 2.0 – Original / License The ribbon-tailed astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) is a bird with a tail typically measuring three feet, sometimes even a few inches longer.

We report tailed skyrmions—a new class of stable soliton solutions of the 2D chiral magnet model. Tailed skyrmions have elongated shapes and emerge in a narrow range of fields near the transition ...

I wasn’t the only person who loved Wingspan’s gentle play, noncompetitive vibe, and beautiful birds: Publisher Stonemaier Games has sold around 2 million copies of Wingspan since its release.

Birds that are grown up are soft grey color heads, upper parts are also grey, underparts are light in color, and wings are dark grey. There are red color patches under the wings. They are huge in ...