Explore the fascinating world of dinosaur feathers and their evolution through groundbreaking research on chicken embryos.

The South Americans hummingbird chicks try to disguise themselves as caterpillar to throw off predators. The post How ...

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

Believe it or not, women have directed only twenty-two Best Picture Oscar nominees at the Academy Awards, the first of which ...

Whether they’re whipping their heads dramatically, contorting into seemingly impossible shapes, or trapping light in their plumage like a black hole, birds-of-paradise always seem to have a new trick ...

Other prizes include the Grand Prize, Birds in Landscapes Prize, Youth Prize, Plants for Birds Prize, Female Bird Prize, and Video Prize. Winners will be featured in the Fall 2025 issue of Audubon ...

Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut “Lady Bird” took the film world by storm ... This made her the first female director to win this prize. In 2021, Chloé Zhao made cinematic history with ...

AP About half of the newborn birds are female — with hens beginning to lay their own eggs at the age of six months. New York state had sanitized 15,000 eggs from Crescent Duck Farm at an off ...

It’s the first survey of biofluorescence for these showy birds, say Rene Martin of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and colleagues. The males of these species have wowed female birds as well ...

Thus, fluorescence would not only be a tool for seduction but also a marker of social status in these species. In female birds of paradise, biofluorescence is less extensive and mainly concentrated on ...

resulting in a green or yellow-green glow from various parts of the birds' anatomy. This glow was particularly evident in the areas that males emphasize during their courtship displays, such as the ...

Birds and plants have a close relationship that has developed over millions of years. Birds became diverse and abundant around 135 million years ago. Shortly after, plants started developing new and ...