The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as species are forced to work together to access life-saving resources ...

Life with a pet bird is full of cheerful chirps and colorful feathers—but hidden hazards might be closer than you think. This ...

After ruling out diet, scientists discover the secret behind blue feathers lies ... out exactly how blue birds get their color. It can’t be their diet: blue pigments, like those in blueberries ...

“The reason the prints are so large is that Audubon wanted to present all the birds at life size,” explains Scott Krafft, curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. “This ...

But there is one natural wonder that just about all of us can see, simply by stepping outside: dinosaurs using their feathers ... like Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. Clearly, Ostrom argued ...

The evolution of feathers with an asymmetrical shape, like those of Archaeopteryx, further enhanced the flight capabilities of early birds. After Archaeopteryx, the fossil record suggests that ...

Exactly when something is sufficiently ‘bird-like’ to be called a bird is very subjective.” Many scientists now believe that the most prominent feature of birds – feathers – evolved in non-avian ...

Engineers at Princeton University designed flexible wing flaps inspired by covert feathers. They wanted to test whether adding more than one row—like birds naturally have—would offer extra ...