Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with the heavens and all spiritual realms. Our guardian angels scatter feathers ...

Consider yourself protected in the presence of black feathers. When it comes to luck and fortune, if you hear the word "black" in front of anything, it is usually seen as a bad omen. Some examples are ...

A powerful X-ray machine, that shines a light brighter than the sun, has helped science detectives determine the color of a 150-million-year-old feather that once belonged to an archaeopteryx, an ...

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues. But a group of ...

What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a head-to-tail feathered mohawk in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes. That is what a team of Chinese and British scientists ...

Manning and his team worked for two years to decipher what the chemistry of the fossil was telling them about the color of the archaeopteryx’s feathers, mostly by studying feathers of modern birds.