Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

Many species of songbirds have evolved to have strikingly colorful plumage, aiding them in catching the eye of mates, ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...