GOAL has what you need to know about the meaning and significance of the Liver bird, the iconic symbol of the Liverpool crest Take a look at the Liverpool crest and you'll see that it is dominated by ...

Birds with beautiful crests: Nature's runway is always open, and the amazing headgear that some birds wear is one of the most eye-catching things about them. These beautiful feather displays, called ...

Evolutionary biologist Michael Shapiro and his team from the University of Utah made international headlines in 2013 when they found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be ...

Crested francolin, Dendroperdix sephaena, Smith, A., 1836 (synonyms, Francolinus sephaena and Peliperdix sephaena; protonym, Perdix Sephaena), also known as the crested partridge, as Smith's spotted ...

A few years ago biologists found that a prominent change in pigeon plumage, head crests, could be traced to a mutation in a single gene. Now the research team has found an almost exact repeat in the ...