The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was a member of the enantiornithines, the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous ...

Paleontologists have discovered Plumadraco bankoorum, a new species of bird from 121 million years ago in China. This ...

New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds ...

Plumadraco bankoorum, a Cretaceous-era bird that may have used its extra-long tail feathers to attract mates.

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...

A bird preserved in a museum drawer for years has begun to draw attention after closer inspection revealed an unusual tail ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...

Each Canada goose that you see flying around in formation around Lancaster County these days has between 20,000 and 25,000 feathers, most hidden from sight. A typical songbird at your backyard feeder ...

A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.

Researchers said the fossil discovered in northeastern China of a newly identified pigeon-sized bird species called ...

Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 ...