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

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

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

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency ...

Many hunters want to know how to age a turkey. These are the clues that can help indicate a tom’s age, but there’s no ...

While a transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers, it is much harder to disrupt ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

Still looking to learn from winged animals, a team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability and maneuverability.

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...

Inhibiting the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway strongly perturbs feather development in chickens by restricting feather bud ...