Editor’s note: On July 22, 2020, Nature retracted the study described in this article at the authors’ request. “Although the description of Oculudentavis khaungraae remains accurate, a new unpublished ...

The world's oldest known modern hummingbird fossils have been discovered in Germany. The tiny skeletons are also the first modern-type hummingbird fossils ever found in the Old World. These creatures, ...

Hummingbirds don’t have teeth, and yet they have quite a sweet tooth. They eat insects to get such essentials as protein and fat, but most of their diet consists of sugary nectar. This has puzzled ...

Hummingbirds can detect the sweetness of nectar because of a taste receptor that took an unexpected evolutionary path, researchers say. Nectar is known to make up about 75 percent of a hummingbird’s ...

“Smalta Clara” is the latin phrase for plique-à-jour, an enameling technique that dates back 1,500 years. Unlike cloisonné or champlevé enamel, in which the enamel is applied to a hollowed out or ...