In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...

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

But there is one natural wonder that just about all of us can see, simply by stepping outside: dinosaurs using their feathers to fly. Birds are so common, even in the most paved-over places on ...

The Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists (RMSBA), in partnership with the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, presents this exhibit as a celebration of the relationship between ...

Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

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

Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the ...

That natural inclination, combined with the rotation of the gas, produced small, elongated structures — the feathers. —Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape.

to artistic interpretations of the natural world. They will be judged on their quality, style and originality. Perched on a wooden post, an anhinga bird twists its long, slender neck to preen and ...