About 115 million years ago, a teenage bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers flew around the trees of the supercontinent Gondwana, until it perished and fossilized in what is now ...

Bird tails are complex structures that give us clues about bird flight and bird behavior. Knowing the variety of tail patterns helps us to identify birds, so let's talk bird tails. A bird's tail ...

The long tail of this Australian bird gives it its name. The tail is shaped like a lyre. This is one of the largest songbirds, and a male can be over three feet long and weigh a little over 2 pounds.

A pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago sported four ribbon-like tail feathers that likely helped the creature balance on tree branches.

This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers The magpie-sized Yuanchuavis probably wasn’t a strong flyer, but it did dress to impress. By Kate Baggaley ...

Frontier Airlines of Denver has announced that Chloe the Chipmunk, Enrique the Tree Frog and Polly the Parrot are the final three contenders in carrier’s search for a new “spokesanimal ...