Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body.

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New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing ​off their plumage, hoping to ...

Here’s what you should know about how to keep your backyard birds healthy, including whether you should keep feeding them.

When I first began bird watching, I had no idea how pervasive birds would become in my life in just a few years. I started ...

For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are pure protein, shedding and ...

Blue may seem common in the sky and oceans, but in the animal kingdom it is actually one of the rarest colors in existence . Most “blue” animals are not truly blue at all — instead they use ...

A biologist explains how the peregrine falcon survives dives faster than most sports cars. Here’s why evolution pushed this ...

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan closed the 2026 Cannes Film Festival with a stunningly fashionable introduction of the feather ...

There’s something about parrots that instantly grabs attention. Maybe it’s the colours, maybe it’s the way they move, or ...

The light was ultraviolet, invisible to human eyes. Green, an anatomist and paleontologist at the New York Institute of ...