By about 175 million years ago, a group known as Pennaraptora had emerged - the closest known relatives of modern birds and ...

A little penguin in a beret? It sounds like the start of a charming children’s book, but it’s real! Let's find out why.

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is part of a broader effort to understand how and why feathers evolved.

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a scientific lens—they reveal an intricate story of evolution, biology, and ...

New research shows that the processes involved in hair, fur, and feather growth are remarkably similar to the way scales grow on fish—a finding that points to a single, ancient origin of these ...

Over the past decade and a half paleontologists have found the remains of numerous feathered dinosaurs, but, as announced in this week's edition of Nature, a new pair of specimens may show how the ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

New Haven, Conn. -- Biologists testing a mathematical model of the mechanism birds use to control the growth of complex feathers found that plumed feather structures involve the coordination of at ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Plant–soil feedbacks can maintain or reinforce alternative states within ecological systems. In Alaskan boreal forests, changes in fire ...

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