Our guardian angels scatter feathers along our physical paths as a way of responding to the questions that deeply trouble us. According to the color of the feathers and the type of bird that they come ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

“Oftentimes the fluorescent areas were bordered by really darkly pigmented feathers, which contrasted against that fluorescence,” Martin said. “A lot of these birds-of-paradise have also ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

But there is one natural wonder that just about all of us can see, simply by stepping outside: dinosaurs using their feathers to fly. Birds are so common, even in the most paved-over places on ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

The MSU scientist published a book called “Bird Coloration” with fellow ornithologist Geoffrey Hill from Auburn University. Together they previously studied the phenomenon of yellow northern cardinals ...