The species is unique to China and mainly found in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. In 1984, the Shanxi government designated the pheasant as the provincial bird. "In the 1980s, the brown-eared ...

An international research team used powerful X-ray beams to peer inside its bones, showing they were almost hollow, as in modern birds. The creature flew like a pheasant, using short bursts of ...

Some 140 years after the black-naped pheasant-pigeon was last sighted by scientists, researchers have "rediscovered" the rare bird. After a month of searching, a team in September captured footage ...