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Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University What are the origins of wings and tails in birds? This is one of the key questions in the evolution of animals. It has long ...

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 ...

Like a peacock with its dazzling plumage, this Cretaceous bird had fancy tail feathers that likely served to attract mates. Reading time 4 minutes Introducing Yuanchuavis, an extinct bird that lived ...

Cockatoos come in more colors than you might think! There are the standard white ones, and then you have your Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos, Salmon-Crested Cockatoos, Moluccan Cockatoos, Palm Cockatoos ...

Peacock tails are just one example of how evolution walks a line between favoring traits that make it easier to survive, and traits that make it easier to find a mate. In a new study, scientists have ...

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

SALINAS — You’ve seen them, soaring over the open valley fields or through the woods, and often perched on roadside poles. The most common and familiar large hawk throughout North America, the ...

A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...

In recent years, dinosaurs have gotten awfully cute. They’re no longer Victorian lumps of saggy muscle. A lot of them are not even frightening. They’re fuzzy, feathery little critters. But, as I’ve ...

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