Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...

Interestingly, birds remain woefully understudied when it comes to the optical extras. Until now, no one had looked for the ...

New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...

"The exhibition will look at both the legend which built up around him and the more complex, problematic realities," HMNS ...

A rare Arctic bird found deceased last week in southwest Kansas will become part of the collection at Lawrence's Kansas ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...