Parrots’ plumage dazzles with feathers in fiery reds, ostentatious oranges, luminous yellows, and verdant greens. Scientists have now discovered the molecular mechanism that controls these four ...

Everyone loves colourful parrots, but do you know where their bright colours come from? This question has been puzzling scientists for a long time and now with the new discovery, it seems that this ...

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so far, the discovery has raised new alarm ...

Parrots are the perfect example of how experimenting with novelty ... Agreed, there are some fish that have thrived from domestication and physical alterations. Just look at the guppy, with its ...

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the underlying mechanisms, until now Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The ...

A Guppy needs 12 hours of lighting each day, best provided using 30-40W fluorescents mounted above your tanks. Don't be misguided into thinking that intensity matters. Duration is far more important, ...

One enzyme has a key role in determining whether parrots’ rainbow plumage emerges in vibrant reds, yellows or greens, a new study shows. But how psittacofulvin pigments shift shades was unclear.

(Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC via AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It’s the first time the ...

Take this parrot, raised in a house with dogs, who is actually capable of playing with his canine siblings, and whose doggie brothers are more than happy to play, too. Pickles the parrot has been ...

The macaws were spotted high up in the tops of Cambridgeshire trees The large bird - named Margot - soon flew down to the keeper’s arm, where she was fed pumpkin seeds, pecans and walnuts.