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 ...

Shimmery. Spiky. Shaggy. Soft. Feathers are what make birds so alluring—but these photographs remind us that they also tell a story about the science of evolution.

A seagull's head was marked with a swastika and its feathers were ripped out by an inmate at a prison in England; the gull is now recovering at a local wildlife rescue.

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. Read the paper: Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China ...