CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -Ohio has numerous brightly colored birds. For most of those, the color is actually in the feather itself. “If you see birds that are red, or orange or yellow those are pigment ...

A frayed, faded flight feather from the wing of a blue jay lay like a worn ribbon on my driveway beneath the shade of a mulberry tree. The once lustrous, sturdy feather had helped propel an assertive ...

Melanosomes linked with blue feathers are much longer than they are wide Sven Traenkner/Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt A prehistoric Eocoracias brachyptera bird whose ...

Blue birds and red birds get their vibrant colors in very different ways, and comparing the two strategies could tell scientists something fascinating about how materials (natural or synthetic) make ...

Examining fossilized pigments, scientists have uncovered new insights into blue color tones in prehistoric birds. Examining fossilised pigments, scientists from the University of Bristol have ...