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 ...

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

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...

WHEN I FIRST HELD THE BIRD, I NOTICED THAT ... AND CUT THOSE FEATHERS TO HAVE IT STAY INSIDE AND NOT FLY. JESS GEORGE IS THE PRESIDENT OF RAPTOR TAILS RESCUE OF SHREWSBURY. SHE AND HER HOME ...