People have slowly come around on the idea that dinosaurs actually had feathers, but this tiny dino had some very unique ...

Animal tails come in all shapes and sizes and serve many purposes, from balance and communication to defense and mating ...

Feathered dinosaurs might have used muscular tails to shake tail feathers and lure the opposite sex, researchers say. Scientists analyzed 75-million-year-old fossils of feathered, two-legged dinosaurs ...

S cientists have stumbled upon a dinosaur tail in surprising circumstances. Findings regarding it have been published in the ...

Visiting Mongolia during the Cretaceous might have revealed a variety of birdlike dinosaurs strutting their stuff and using a spectacular fan of tail feathers to woo potential mates. The birdlike ...

Though famous for their mid-air hovering during hunting, tiny hummingbirds have another trait that is literally telltale: males of some hummingbird species generate loud sounds with their tail ...

There’s more subtlety than humans have realized in dropping out of the sky so fast your tail feathers sing. Male Costa’s hummingbirds in western North America are masters of the tail-screaming ...

There's only so much palaeontologists can learn about prehistoric animals from fossilized bones, so on rare occasions when ancient soft tissues turn up, it's worth taking note. Recent discoveries of ...

"When I'm working on a bird, I have to almost imagine how they're feeling and what they're feeling and why they're doing the ...

With USC’s parents weekend and Saturday’s home football opener, people will no doubt notice the distinctive Gamecock tail feathers on signs, banners and more in and around campus. The man who may have ...

Feathered dinosaurs might have used muscular tails to shake tail feathers and lure the opposite sex, researchers say. Scientists analyzed 75-million-year-old fossils of feathered, two-legged dinosaurs ...