Wilson's bird-of-paradise has unusual curled tail feathers. Serhan Oksay / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. A fancy tail doesn’t have to be exceptionally long — it can also be exceptionally ...

Making a list of birds with a long tail isn’t as straightforward as it seems. For example, the peacock is not on the list. Why? Because the beautiful feathers that trail behind it and that he ...

Long-tailed widowbird. These South African birds are named for their almost all black colouring and, of course, their extremely long tail. Between six and eight of their tail feathers grow to more ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...

Long, elaborate tail feathers can help attract a mate, but they're not especially useful -- they're less aerodynamic than a short fan of feathers, so birds that have them tend not to live in ...

A 115-million-year-old fossilized bird with a pair of long, ribbon-like tail feathers is the oldest bird ever found in Brazil. It was about the size of a hummingbird, and it likely boasted bright ...

Long, elaborate tail feathers can help attract a mate, but they’re not especially useful-- they’re less aerodynamic than a short fan of feathers, so birds that have them tend not to live in ...

The bird's tail is truly "bizarre," the researchers said; it had two lengthy plume feathers that were more than 150% of its body length. At the tail's base, a stiff fan of short feathers likely ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...