Flamingo chicks hatch covered in white-gray down, and they stay that way for years. The signature pink-to-red plumage that ...

Where do birds get their red feathers from? According to a new article, the red carotenoids that give the common crossbill its red coloration are produced in the liver, not the skin, as previously ...

Some birds are iridescent because of the physical make-up of their feathers, but scientists had never found evidence of this structural color in the group of birds containing ostriches and cassowaries ...

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues. But a group of ...

What color was a Velociraptor? A little over 5 years ago, many thought paleontologists just could not answer that question. After all, there may be amazing fossils of carbonized feathers, but they don ...

Another week, another colorful feathered dinosaur. Hot on the heels of a recent report identifying pigments in fossilized dino feathers and filaments (SN Online: 1/27/10), a different team of ...

A peacock's display is one of the most recognizable behaviors in the animal world, but there is much more behind it than ...

Vinther figured there was no reason pigment grains and melanosomes wouldn't survive in other fossilized creatures. He took a closer look at the suspicious dark smudges in an extinct bird fossil and ...

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