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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 ...

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also ...

In modern birds, black, brown, and some reddish-brown colors are produced by tiny granules of the pigment melanin. These features — called melanosomes — are preserved in many fossil feathers, and ...

'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is a masterpiece painted by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1665. The girl's face in the painting is as vivid as the pearl. Vermeer painted on beige canvas to make the ...

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 ...

The news that many dinosaurs were likely covered in a thick layer of feathers may make them seem a little less imposing — but it also means they may have been intensely colorful. Now scientists have ...