When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru, they thought it was a newly discovered species. Instead, the bird is a hybrid that resulted from two pink ...

When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park, they thought it was a newly discovered species. When researchers found a ...

It boasts more than 200 objects made from gleaming gold, green and blue jade, resplendent macaw feathers, turquoise, and coral-colored, scallop-shaped Spondylus shells, among other materials.

A feather of the extinct huia songbird just sold in New Zealand for about $28,000. That makes it worth about $3,153 per gram, or 40 times as much as gold's $77 per gram in New Zealand.

As noted by The Guardian, its final price of $28,000 makes it worth more by weight than gold. Gold costs around $77 per gram in New Zealand, and the 9-gram huia feather is worth $3,153 per gram.