Villagers in the UK keep getting spooked by a ghostly peacock who wanders into their gardens — because he’s looking for a mate. Lovesick bird Bertie, an all-white peacock, is often mistaken for a ...

"The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick," Charles Darwin told a fellow scientist in a letter in 1860. The showiness of the peacock tail initially struck him ...

Scientists have concluded that peacocks’ tail feathers are capable of emitting narrow beams of light. A team highlighted that the colored tail feathers include tiny reflective structures that can ...