Explore the fascinating world of dinosaur feathers and their evolution through groundbreaking research on chicken embryos.

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

In her watercolor triptych, Rosalie Haizlett celebrates the vibrant colors and details found in the feathers of common—and ...

The first feathers were not the branched structures seen in modern birds. They were simple tubules, resembling tiny straws. To understand how evolution built everything from soft down to the showy ...

From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world.

A pipe-smoking, bespectacled down-easter, Gilley is a quiet ... like the bird that eats at my feeder.’ Maybe her bird was molting, or maybe some cat had pulled out her finch’s tail feathers. Anyway, ...

Denmark, Germany, Italy and Poland are among the nations the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached for eggs.

Hope is text messages with your kid, when they’re telling you real things line by line. Hope is the click of a seatbelt when you pull into the frenzy of the world. Hope is the three solid blue lights ...

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By ...