Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...

Birds-of-paradise are known for their colorful feathers, but now new research shows that many of them are even more dazzling ...

Interestingly, birds remain woefully understudied when it comes to the optical extras. Until now, no one had looked for the ...

Rats have made the various aviaries at Singapore's only bird park their home and have been running amok in the bird ...

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Biofluorescence is seen on an emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) in the American Museum of Natural History's collection. New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural ...

Now it seems they’ve been putting on more of a visual display than anyone realized as birds-of-paradise have been found to glow. Birds-of-paradise number around 45 species and typically have ...

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of ...

New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...