Wilson's bird-of-paradise has unusual curled tail feathers. Serhan Oksay / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0. A fancy tail doesn’t have to be exceptionally long — it can also be exceptionally ...

The unusual appearance of the bird, starting with its naked blue head, is made all the more interesting by the two violet tail feathers that curl in opposite directions. The bird was filmed in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...

It was a small bird, about the size of a bluejay, but its tail was more than 150% the length of its body. And the tail’s length isn’t the only unusual thing about it.

Fossil bird with fancy tail feathers longer than its body Date: September 16, 2021 Source: Field Museum Summary: Peacock tails are just one example of how evolution walks a line between favoring ...

An illustration of the toothed dinosaur-age bird Yuanchuavis shows the small animal's superlong (and sexy) tail feathers. (Image credit: Haozhen Zhang) Y. kompsosoura is a member of the ...

The bird had tail feathers that were more than 150 per cent the length of its body; ... Y. kompsosoura was a small bird, about the size of a blue jay, ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. While the feathers probably didn’t help the ...