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

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

Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...

Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

When Birds Lose the Ability to Fly, Their Bodies Change Faster Than Their Feathers Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in ...

Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

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

Birds have always sparked human imagination—with their feathers, colors, songs, and, of course, their ability to fly. But among these sky-dwellers, some stand out not just ... Continue Reading → ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple ... of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings) around ...

At the 12th day of incubation, feather buds exhibit longitudinal domains ... common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings) around 240 million ...