A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Settled into a comfortable married life in Didsbury, then a leafy part of Manchester, Emily ...

Why are some songbirds so brightly colored? A new study finds that a hidden layer of black and white feathers help their colors pop. Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red ...