Hummingbirds are some of the most brightly-colored things in the entire world. Their iridescent feathers reflect light in a way that other birds can't match, and scientists weren't sure what made ...

Some birds are iridescent because of the physical make-up of their feathers, but scientists had never found evidence of this structural color in the group of birds containing ostriches and cassowaries ...

A member of the parrot family, the rainbow lorikeet is a stunning combination of vivid green, blue, yellow, red, and orange hues. Its beak is reddish-orange, and its head is blue. It even has red and ...

Introducing Caihong juji, a tiny, Jurassic-era dinosaur that lived 161 million years ago in what is now China. The feathered theropod featured an iridescent, rainbow colored ring of feathers around ...

A painted bunting sports a jaw-dropping rainbow of colors. Learn what the male and female looks like, what the bird eats and ...

A rainbow lorikeet at the Colchester Zoo in England made its daring escape last weekend by landing on a visitor as they were about to leave its enclosure. Reading time 2 minutes The U.K.’s Colchester ...