A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

A bird preserved in a museum drawer for years has begun to draw attention after closer inspection revealed an unusual tail ...

A recently discovered extinct bird from the early Cretaceous Period (approximately 121 million years ago) may have waggled its long tail feathers to attract mates, according to a study published May ...

Interview with Alexander D. Clark, PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History, USA. Author of upcoming PLOS One paper, about an ancient bird species discovered ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Cultural appropriation isn’t just harmful to the communities that are affected — it can also cause lasting damage to native ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depend on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you’ll ...