Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body.
New Guinea’s tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom’s most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing ​off their plumage, hoping to ...
A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.
A 121-million-year-old fossil from China shows that extreme feather displays are not a modern bird invention. Plumadraco ...