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 ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A large boulder used as decoration in a rural Australian high school’s foyer is actually covered in dinosaur footprints —it ...

Some dinosaurs may have used feathers to stay warm, court mates or even fly. For instance, paleontologists think a tiny chicken-size dinosaur named Microraptor had feathers on all four limbs to ...

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.

In 2021, following media coverage of dinosaur remains in the area, someone thought to have an expert look at the big rock ...