Long-eared Owls have fluorescent feathers that glow under UV light. These hidden pigments vary by age, sex, and size.

Birds have long been nature’s masters of flight. Their ability to glide, dive, and twist through the air with ease has ...

Chickens treated to inhibit the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway during development grow feathers that resemble ancient ...

Scientists theorized that birds look blue for the same reason ... When white light strikes a blue feather, the keratin pattern causes red and yellow wavelengths to cancel each other out, while ...

But there is one natural wonder that just about all of us can see, simply by stepping outside: dinosaurs using their feathers to fly. Birds are so common, even in the most paved-over places on ...

In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing the embryos to grow simplified, unbranched feather structures resembling ...

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 ...