In a question and answer format, UC Riverside public policy professor Richard Carpiano and medical school professor Dr.

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are reporting that Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) engage ...

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 the ...

Birds-of-paradise number around 45 species and typically have elaborate feathers, colors, and mating displays. Birds also ...

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

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

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

When it comes to poisonous animals, birds probably aren't the first to come to mind. But there are actually a number of ...

I love spring … the colors, the smell, the sounds of singing birds. After a winter of gray skies, white landscapes and no smells — I just love spring. I am fortunate enough to spend a ...

Behind the wheel is Nick Leseberg, an ecologist, who drives at a slow but steady pace with keen eyes that miss little in the ...