“Mirasaura lived in trees in one of the first forests that emerged after the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary,” noted palaeontologist Prof Dr Hans Sues from the National Museum ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

It is generally believed they bask in the hot sun to relieve themselves of feather lice. An experiment using artificial wings ...

Nature’s ability to make a biological feature, like a feather, appear to change colour when seen from a different angle has been recreated by TCD scientists.

According to scientists at Cornell University, the male club-winged manakin doesn’t sing in the traditional way. Instead, it creates sound by rubbing a pair of specialized wing feathers together ...

An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new species of fossil reptile from the Triassic period that had a large crest ...