Their beautiful plumage has put them at risk, making them a rare site in the forests and valleys of Malaysia and Indonesia. Recently, a trail camera set up in a Malaysia reserve captured one of the ...

Why is this pigeon pink? We break down the mystery — plus, birding experts advise what to do if you see a pink bird that ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much simpler structures called proto-feathers, which first appeared in some dinosaurs ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology ...