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

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Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

A series of footprints once attributed to a “swimming brontosaur” has a far more likely explanation, new research has found.

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Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

Many of our birds are cavity nesters, that is, they nest in holes in trees and fence posts. Woodpeckers can use their strong ...

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

At the 12th day of incubation, feather buds exhibit longitudinal domains of cell density that correspond to the barbs of the future down feather.

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

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...