Science news articles about 'black feathers'

... and breast, yellow belly, olive back and black feathers on the head. Females are similar, but less vibrant. Both sexes have a distinctive white dot ...

... . Birds on the smaller islands have the same black feathers, but with a chestnut-colored belly. The question of whether ... the production of melanin, which gives skin and feathers their color. The all-black and chestnut-bellied birds had different ...

... , is probably a young female based on the presence of black feathers mixed into the rust-colored breast plumage (males have a black breast band). In addition to the chestnut breast ...

... House. He is 5 feet tall and has a plume of white feathers, save for a patch of red and black feathers between his beak and the nape of his neck. He also has a 7-foot wingspan, which these cranes ...

The raven-size creature long thought of as the earliest bird, Archaeopteryx, may have been adorned with black feathers, researchers have found.

The dinosaur Microraptor had black glossy feathers like a crow.