The Iceland gull is easier to identify than most other gulls ... to pop into your mind when you think of the bird species. Other than the flowing feathers on its head and chest, the animal has ...

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

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler ... as well as aquatic vegetation. And the glorious feathers? They seem to exist purely for our delight, but in fact they ...

But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers compared the feathers and bodies ...

The leading edge is thicker than the back edge, and they are covered in feathers that narrow to a point. Airplane wings are modeled after bird wings. The bones and muscles of the wing are also ...

Birds have feathers and a beak and lay hard-shelled eggs. Many birds are able to fly using their wings, but others such as ostriches are flightless and unable to fly. Some birds like penguins ...