Nature produces some truly extravagant costumes, and birds have evolved more than their fair share of dazzling outfits. Often, it's the male birds that steal the show with bold colors and unfurling ...

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in ...

The rainbow of hues seen in modern bird eggs probably evolved in birds' dinosaur ancestors, which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells. That's according to a new study of fossil eggs in the ...

During his notable trip to the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin collected several mockingbird specimens on different islands in the region. He later discovered that each island only contained a ...

Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math. But really though: A study from last year found that oviraptors, a dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, laid blue-green eggs, ...

Birds tend to be more colorful in the tropics, and scientists wanted to find out how they got there: if colorful feathers evolved in the tropics, or if tropical birds have brightly-colored ancestors ...

Colorful birds thrive in cities, according to new research. Avian species that do well in urban areas have feathers of a more vibrant color and are less brown, say scientists. They explained that the ...

Bird eggs come in a host of beautiful colors and patterns, including the coffee-colored swirls of prinia eggs, the deep green of emu eggs, and the brilliant blue of the eggs laid by the humble robin.

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

The long-held idea that birds living near the equator are more colorful than those living closer to the poles is true, suggests a recent study Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis). The sexes look ...

While hiking in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Siskiyou County near California’s northern border, I came across several colorful birds that were zipping around at high speed to gobble up ...