In the early Cretaceous, a palm-sized bird made a fatal mistake. Its fossil shows a tight mass of tiny stones jammed in its throat - a snapshot of a creature caught in its final moments. The cluster ...

Donaldson, from Steyning in West Sussex, said her new book felt "like a fairy story" as she collaborated with illustrator ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon.

From the iridescent purple sunbird to the gregarious rose-ringed parakeet, the country is teeming with beautiful avian life ...

Martha has added a young male silver pheasant to her 152-acre Bedford, New York farm, bringing her total number of pheasants to 11, most of which are golden pheasants. Some were adopted, while others ...

Celebrate National Peacock Month with the Ross Park Zoo’s Feathered Fashion Icons. If you love bold colors and a little bit ...

A hummingbird gorget is a strange sounding word for shimmering feathers that catch the light. Learn more about these colorful ...

Bird feathers are among nature’s most extraordinary creations — engineered for flight, designed for survival and often ...

Vanya, curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, studies a turkey vulture wing at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. — Photos: BRYAN ANSELM/The New York Times Vanya ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With more than 10,000 bird species on Earth, narrowing down the most beautiful is no simple task. Beauty in the natural world can ...

Have you ever watched a peacock fan out his tail and thought that was impressive? Well, hold that thought. There’s a bird out there doing things with its feathers that seem almost impossible to ...

A rare male Himalayan monal was photographed flying over Bhutan’s high valleys, revealing its striking iridescent feathers in shades of blue, green, purple, gold and orange. Found across Bhutan, Nepal ...