Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is ...

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

For instance, transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers ... The first feathers were not the complicated, branching features seen on birds today.

than it is to tear down a load-bearing wall and rebuild it into something new. Some more recently-evolved feather adaptations, like the asymmetry in the flight feathers that allows birds to fly ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation ... observed the complete and permanent transformation of scales into feathers on the bird's feet. Recreating the first dinosaur proto-feathers ''Since ...