Birds & Blooms on MSN1d
All About Bird Wings and Flight Feathers
Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...
Earth.com4d
Chicken embryos reveal secrets of early feather development
Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.
How Chickens Grew Dinosaur Feathers (Then Changed Back)
Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...
Live Science on MSN4d
Why don't all birds fly?
Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...
From dinosaurs to birds: The origins of feather formation
Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...
When feathers fly
When feathers fly ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Traffic Noise May Be Making These Bright Yellow Birds More Aggressive in the Galápagos Islands, Study Suggests
Male Galápagos yellow warblers appear to be shifting their behavior and adjusting their calls in response to the din of ...
Knowridge Science Report5d
From dinosaurs to chickens: How feathers first evolved
Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...
Science Daily7d
From dinosaurs to birds: the origins of feather formation
Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple ... of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings) around ...