Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

Tail feathers grow from the bird’s tail ... Native to Australia, it’s also a pretty bird with plumage of pink, blue, and green. As with so many other birds, the male’s tail is longer than ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have body parts that fluoresce ...

As Munmun Dhalaria watched from a bird blind, this male jujurana ... He deploys his finery: His head sprouts blue horns, his tail feathers fan, his rainbow wattle unfurls. At passion’s peak ...

Thin and long tailed, with outer tail feathers almost entirely white (tail from below looks white). The bill is thin and pale gray. Breeding male: blue-gray above, including most of head and back.

Birds-of-paradise can emit green, yellow and pale blue light from their bodies ... Male birds-of-paradise are already renowned for using bright colours, iridescent feathers and precise movements to ...

Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds ... tail, another reptilian feature found in small dinosaurs too. But the creature also had wings and bore feathers ...