A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.
Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...
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Ancient bird’s long tail feathers were perfect for a mating dance
New Guinea’s tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom’s most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their plumage, hoping to ...
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 ...
The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was a member of the enantiornithines, the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous ...
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