By tweaking a specific gene, scientists have discovered a way to permanently transform the scales on a chicken's feet into feathers. The results provide new insight into the bird's evolutionary ...

Bessie, our adorable black Labrador, died in June 2003. When my beloved brindle lurcher followed suit 18 months later, I was utterly desolate to be dogless for the first time in 35 years. On the other ...

Vultures made me do it. That's my stock answer now, whenever people ask me about this book. It was vultures that first spurred my interest in feathers, years ago on a research project in Kenya.

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