Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out a stash of ...

They're a spectacular sight in sunshine or shadow! Here's how birds of paradise use biofluorescence to their advantage. 🪶🟢 ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

A male Paradisaea rubra, or red bird-of-paradise.Credit...Rene Martin/American Museum of Natural History Supported by By Jason Bittel Elaborate poses, tufts of feathers, flamboyant shuffles along ...

Biofluorescence seen on an emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) in the American Museum of ... [+] Natural History's collection showing its plumage There are 45 species in 17 genera in ...

Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found that when birds evolve ...

For more than half a century, Murphy J. Foster Hall has served as the home of the LSU Museum of Natural Science. The hidden ...

Scientists found that when birds lose the ability to fly, their skeletons change first, while feathers take much longer to ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the region’s birds. It’s part of a broader scientific effort to understand ...