Nature’s natural colors can be breathtaking. Tropical birds are famous for their brightly colored feathers, and many fish ...

Gavriel Jecan / Corbis For decades, scientists have known how birds with yellow or red feathers usually get their color: It comes from pigments in foods the birds eat. Flamingoes, for instance ...

Male mandarins have colorful “sails” on each wing. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage by Robert Clark, published by Chronicle Books 2016 This tail feather comes from a male red bird of ...

All U.S. service members aboard the USS Harry S. Truman have been accounted for and are safe after a fighter jet, an F/A-18E ...

Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with ...

One day as she hid in a bird blind, a male drew near, splendid in his orange-feather ascot and white-spotted black cloak. After browsing for food, he hopped onto a boulder and began calling ...

Some scientists point to genetic quirks called mutations as possible triggers for its unexpected look. Genes involved in ...

No doubt, a larger, flashier feather bulb may be more attractive to ... The largest threat to the birds is other natural enemies. The bright and colorful plumage of the cock-of-the-rock attracts ...

A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant ... Chicks hatch with white feathers that turn gray—and later take their pink color from aqueous bacteria and beta-carotene obtained ...

A recent study by the American Museum of Natural History discovered how important these dazzling feathers really are. “There are 45 different species of birds ... any other color that comes ...