Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is primarily a combination of ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

Feathers set birds apart from all other animals ... How can a bird grow many kinds of feathers, from long flight feathers to tiny wisps of down? And how does the bird's body know where to grow ...

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

They found that iridescent, colorful feathers originated 415 times across the bird tree of life, and in most cases, arose outside of the tropics -- and that the ancestor of all modern birds likely ...

Two new studies point to one possible factor: the differences between how modern birds and their ancient cousins molt their feathers. Feathers are one of the key traits that all birds share.

One might expect that, considering all the time humans have ... of feathers combine aspects of these two types. The contour feathers that streamline a bird’s body, for example, have vaned ...