Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 230 million years ago. They were relatives of dinosaurs and prehistoric birds.

The horned lark is a sparrow-like bird of prairies and deserts and its horns are feather tufts as well. Unlike the foolish person who tries to take a selfie with a bison, you needn’t fear being ...

At first glance, the Great Argus is a quiet, foraging, pheasant-like bird from the Phasianidae family — until mating season. The wing feathers are the crown jewel of the Argus’s plumage. In an ...

Like any self-respecting cult, the Stepchickens follow a strict code of conduct as dictated by their absolute leader, Mother Hen, a comedian named Melissa who posts on TikTok as @chunkysdead ...

The day-old bird, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walked closer to the nest, the chick began twitching and shaking its head—a behavior they had ...

Birds use feather colors and patterns to differentiate their own species among other, similar species of birds. "We think that the horns on these dinosaurs were analogous to what birds are doing ...

In birds, males are often the ones to sport showy, colorful feathers—the better to attract and entice females. It’s peacocks, not peahens, that get to fan out flamboyant blue-and-green tails.

The small brown bird weighs around 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) and has black and yellow bands along with a large beak. Amazed Chilean scientists have identified a new bird species, the Sub ...

Southern Living magazine named Fells Point‘s Birds of a Feather one of the top three whiskey bars in the South today. The magazine’s description of the bar keeps it appropriately simple ...

So, while all of the other colors pass through the feather, the blue does not. It is reflected, so you see blue. This is why ground up feathers turn brown. Once the nanostructures are destroyed, you ...

As long as a dinosaur specimen has well-preserved feathers, we can compare its arrangements of melanosomes with those of living birds to determine the feather’s palette, and a study published in ...