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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black-backed dwarf kingfisher sitting on a branch. Nature produces some truly extravagant costumes, and birds have evolved more ...

The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. (Image: Canva) Vulturine guinea fowl's blue feathers come from microscopic structures, not pigment. Feather patterns help flock ...

Nature gives us one incredible surprise after another. If you're a bird lover and have been admiring bluebirds, jays, or barn swallows, you're not seeing a blue bird; it s actually brown. Here's how ...

Using synchrotron X-ray methodologies and nanotechnology-based analytical methods, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered how nanoscale, spongy architectures — rather than pigments — within ...