Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

Raggiana – Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana Order – Family: Passeriformes – Paradisaeidae Physical Description: These ...

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.

“A lot of these birds-of-paradise have also evolved something called an ultra-black feather that really sucks in a lot of that light — which is interesting, because the group of birds-of ...

Something that is immediately noticeable about the Western parotia and many other birds of paradise is that most of their feathers are a shade of black so dark and impenetrable that Martin and her ...

Lawes’s Parotia Parotia lawesii Order – Family: Passeriformes – Paradisaeidae Physical Description: This bird measures ...

Filmed as war raged across Europe, Children of Paradise is a masterpiece: a nostalgic love letter to Paris, the theatre and the spirit of resistance.

Few experiences in a hunter’s life compare with acquiring an over-the-counter tag for an emperor goose, or hunting a flock of ...

some male birds-of-paradise will raise their wings up to surround their face, creating what Martin and her colleagues describe as "a dark black halo". In the center of this frame, the bird will ...