Q. While traveling through southern Florida, we saw a flock of green birds that looked like parrots. What could they have been? Aren’t parrots restricted to the tropics of South America and Africa? A.

Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings. "You have to ask why birds would do this," says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington ...

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A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family ...