Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How birds get their colors. A visual guide to your brilliantly hued, winged friends. Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you're far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you'll ...

Yale professor Hui Cao hopes to replicate the brilliant colors of bird feathers in the laboratory, in this case using lasers. Cao, professor of applied physics, was one of 175 scholars, artists and ...

A team of researchers has found that “birds inherited their egg color from non-avian dinosaur ancestors that laid eggs in fully or partially open nests,” Yale University announced Wednesday. (Jasmina ...

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image. A new study of barn swallows reveals it also ...

Birds boast some of the most vibrant colors among terrestrial animals. Our pretty avian friends have inspired our Democrat and Chronicle photographers for years and captured the imaginations of many ...