The Indian peafowl or peacock is a large and unique bird, often inhabiting deciduous forests across India. From their unique ...

Technically speaking, “peacock” refers only to a male of the peafowl species, a type of pheasant. A female peafowl is known as a peahen and young peafowls are called peachicks. It has long ...

From their intricate mating displays to their surprising interactions with their environment, peacocks offer a wealth of intriguing facts. Their behaviors and adaptations not only highlight their ...

The green peafowl, thought to have been the species from which the legendary phoenix myth sprouted, number fewer than a thousand in the wild today. In China, green peafowls can only be found in ...

The green peafowl, measuring 180 to 230 centimeters in length, is the only native peafowl species in China and the largest of the country's wild pheasants. The males, having bright blue-green ...

The man behind the descriptions is Museums Victoria's Joseph Schubert, a 22-year-old peacock spider specialist. He's now written up 12 of the 85 known species in this group. He often gets sent ...

The ManxSPCA said it had been receiving several calls a week about the non-native species straying unexpectedly into unusual places. Peacocks have been spotted in a supermarket car park and ...

There are more than 400 different species of mantis shrimp. Peacock mantis shrimp—also called harlequin or painted mantis shrimp—are arguably the best-known of the family. These critters get ...