Ever heard of strontium? Sounds like a character in a Marvel Comics movie, someone with superhuman powers. Actually, strontium is a chemical that is found everywhere. It leaks out from rocks and into ...

Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red or so blue or so intensely yellow? Well, if you have, then you and several researchers have something in common. A new study finds ...

There are more than 11,000 different bird species in the world that have a variety of colors. Recently, a group of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis wrote a study about why birds may ...

BRAINERD — I was hunkered in a blind I had placed along the edge of field when a magnificent tom turkey walked into view a mere 50 feet away. I “yelped” softly on a diaphragm turkey call, and ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...

A group of peacocks is called an ostentation, no doubt reflecting the male of the species’ propensity for ostentatious display (the correct term for a female is peahen). In Sabal Palms, Florida, three ...