It might be ornate peacock plumage, large antlers on a deer, or a bird's particularly melodious mating call. Another type of sexual selection is combat among members of the same sex to choose an ...

He imaged peacock feathers using scanning electron microscopy to get a closer look at their highly detailed structure. This revealed that eyespots have a slightly different structure than the ...

The South African photographer began shooting peacock feathers three years ago after ... Nell took hundreds of photographs, shooting at different depths of field to get a perfectly crisp image.

Peacocks' striking feather displays fail to excite, much less interest, females, according to new research. This throws a wrench in the long-held belief that male peacock feathers evolved in ...

When a peacock struts his stuff ... In addition, the birds with eyespots have them on different types of feathers, which further hinted that they may have evolved independently.