Bright, bold, and beautiful—bird feathers are some of nature’s most ... in National Geographic magazine.) For Clark, the draw of feathers is more than skin-deep. “They’re beautiful for ...

An ancient bird that lived 120 million years ago had fancy tail feathers like a peacock, a study of fossilised remains shows. Researchers in China and the US report the discovery of Yuanchuavis ...

"We've never seen this combination of different kinds of tail feathers before in a fossil bird," says Jingmai O'Connor, a paleontologist at Chicago's Field Museum and one of the study's authors.