A new study in Nature Communications reveals that iridescent feathers go way back -- a newly discovered species of dinosaur from 161 million years ago had rainbow coloring. Caihong juji was tiny ...

The non-avian dinosaur's fossilized plumage, which had hues of black and blue like a crow, is the earliest record of iridescent feather color. The findings, which suggest the importance of display ...

Nanostructures preserved in feather fossils more than 40 million years old show evidence that those feathers were once vivid and iridescent in color, paleontologists say. Iridescence is the ...

Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, in partnership with technology company NVIDIA, modeled how light ...

A new dive into the bird family tree found that iridescent colorful feathers originated 415 times. In most cases, they arose outside of the tropics. It’s also likely that the ancestor of all ...

The gaudy-colored tom was clad in his springtime best, and as he stepped from the shadows, his iridescent feathers lit up. I very slowly shifted my camera into position. When the light angle is pe ...