Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

This striking plume of yellow is the fluorescing tail feathers of a male emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi). Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays.

Birds-of-paradise have long fascinated scientists with their dazzling courtship displays, but new research reveals they have ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner mouth ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in ... Some species had long, glowing plumes, gleaming bills, or sported glimmering spots ...

Birds-of-paradise can emit green, yellow and pale blue light from ... where colour is a matter of life and death. The tropics have long been perceived as being a riot of colour.

Costa Rica, a small Central American country nestled between Nicaragua and Panama, is a world-renowned destination for ...