A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.
For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are pure protein, shedding and ...
Paleontologists have discovered Plumadraco bankoorum, a new species of bird from 121 million years ago in China. This ...
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121-million-year-old bird fossil stuns scientists with tail feathers twice the length of its body
A bird preserved in a museum drawer for years has begun to draw attention after closer inspection revealed an unusual tail ...
Plumadraco bankoorum, a Cretaceous-era bird that may have used its extra-long tail feathers to attract mates.
Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...
Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...
Super-black feathers on these guys are like looking into a dark cave. Natasha Baucas, CC BY-SA What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” ...
Discover how Princeton engineers used bird feathers' tricks to create self-recovering wings, enhancing lift and stability ...
June 3 (UPI) --Feathers arrived at least 100 million years before birds, according to a new survey. Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists were ...
Birds tweet, squawk, chirp, hoot, cluck, and screech to communicate with each other. Some birds have found another way to talk, though: they make sounds by fluttering their feathers or smacking their ...
The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was a member of the enantiornithines, the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous ...
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