Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered what a bird’s tail is made of? It’s actually just feathers. Unlike animals such as cats or dogs, there are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering blue eye-spots, birds of paradise do courtship dances that highlight their ...

An ancient bird dubbed the "feathered dragon" had some of the longest tail feathers ever found on a fossil. The newly discovered species displayed its "crazy" tail feathers to attract mates around 120 ...

A recently discovered extinct bird from the early Cretaceous Period (approximately 121 million years ago) may have waggled its long tail feathers to attract mates, according to a study published May ...