ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, Natives of Southeast Alaska have paid artisans to create tools, clothing and ceremonial regalia adorned with feathers. So contemporary ...

If you had to describe a male peacock’s tail feathers, you might pick words like “dazzling” or “beautiful.” You probably wouldn’t go with “stealthy,” “aerodynamic,” or “subtle.” Peacock tails are just ...

Scientists have concluded that peacocks’ tail feathers are capable of emitting narrow beams of light. A team highlighted that the colored tail feathers include tiny reflective structures that can ...

About 99 million years ago, an unlucky juvenile dinosaur wandered into a sticky trap and sacrificed a chunk of its tail. That dinosaur's loss was paleontology's gain. Millions of years later, the ...

Feathered dinosaurs might have used muscular tails to shake tail feathers and lure the opposite sex, researchers say. Scientists analyzed 75-million-year-old fossils of feathered, two-legged dinosaurs ...

Microraptors were four-winged, pigeon-sized dinos, related to Velociraptor, which lived in the Cretaceous Period around 130 million years ago. Experts looking at fossils of Microraptor feathers have ...