Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There is more to a peacock's feather-shaking technique than just an ostentatious display of iridescent eyespots to attract a mate, a new report has revealed. Animals often display their body parts ...

Peacocks are known for being flashy. The male peafowl’s bright feathers are a prime example of biological ornamentation, designed specifically to attract the attention of relatively plain females. Now ...

A peacock unfurls his magnificent train feathers. (Credit: Roslyn Dakin) When you see a peacock shake a train feather, you’re watching finely tuned natural engineering at work. When a peacock wants to ...

Just recently, my primary school daughter, little Lola, did a school project on the peacock. She made a magnificent model, and wrote an essay that included the widely-held belief that the purpose of ...

THE magnificent tail display of a peacock is one of nature's most recognisable spectacles, with their iridescent blue and ...

THE dazzling display of colour in a peacock’s tail is produced by a surprisingly simple mechanism – a crystal structure woven into the bird’s feathers. Researchers have long known that the vivid blues ...

Biologists have known for some time that peacocks use their shimmery, iridescent feathers to woo partners (known as peahens) — but they now have a better idea of what the frenzied feather shaking ...

As male peacocks shake their long feathers in courtship, the iridescent eyespots remain nearly stationary and captivate females, according a study published April 27, 2016, in the open-access journal ...