What do you get when you combine chicken embryos, a gene named after a video game character, and a couple of scientists? A ...

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

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

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

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

For more than 20 years, a simple white slab sat in the main office of Biloela State High School, blending into the background ...

Birds are living descendants of dinosaurs, and the similarities are easy to see in these baby toucan chicks.

Will Harris doesn’t just talk the talk — he wrangles it, grazes it, and regenerates the soil beneath its hooves. A ...

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

Other top trophy recipients across both the main ceremony, hosted by Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza, and the creative ...

For most, it was just an impressive rock with multiple chicken-like tracks ... a paleontologist at the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, shows that the boulder contains 66 fossilized ...