The most hotly contested artifact disputed between the Mexican and Austrian governments just disappeared from public view for at least a couple of years. The quetzal-feather headdress, or penacho, ...

Lopez Obrador announced he had asked Beatriz Gutierrez, a journalist and writer, to appeal to Austria to give back the pre-Hispanic relic Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife ...

The fight over 'Moctezuma's headdress' rages on. The feathered headdress widely attributed to the legendary Aztec emperor is on show in Vienna's renowned Weltmuseum. Officials there insist the brittle ...

Long ago, in the lush forests of Guatemala, where jaguars and serpents served as guardians of the bush, the humans who lived there were in harmony with the Earth, just as the gods had intended. One ...

Not so many sunsets ago, there lived a quetzal named Taré. He played with all the other little quetzals and had a good time, but as he grew older, his tail began to be a problem. It was short!! Now, ...

Resplendent quetzals aren't the only species with long tail feathers: Golden-headed quetzals grow tail feathers up to 6.7 inches (17. cm) long, and crested quetzal feathers can reach 30 inches (76.2 ...

Ronni Flannery heard it first: the softly insistent, slightly descendant keloo-keloo of the quetzal, strobing from the cloud forest around us. Ronni Flannery heard it first: the softly insistent, ...

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...