Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...

Until, that is, most of them disappeared, quite possibly stolen. There had been roughly 40 peafowl running around the vicinity of the Ryde in Walnut Grove, Calif., a small town in the Sacramento River ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...