At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

"Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur with feathers, nor is it the first dinosaur with wings. However, we think it is the ...

It is important to know how different organs ‘manage’ their stem cells. Both hair and feather follicles show robust regenerative powers that episodically renew the epithelial organ.

as announced in this week's edition of Nature, a new pair of specimens may show how the feathers of some of these dinosaurs changed as they grew up. Among birds, feather growth is relatively ...

Not only did these flying reptiles have feathers, but they could actually ... these findings published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers analyzed the fossilized headcrest of ...

Yet fossilization can change feather proteins, making one keratin protein resemble another, researchers report in the October Nature Ecology & Evolution. The team also presented their findings on ...

The study shows, for the first time, that Psittacosaurus had reptile-like skin in areas where it didn't have feathers. The study, published today in Nature Communications, was led by UCC ...

But Dürer was also fascinated by feathers as objects to represent in his art long before he saw these examples. He was one of the early artists really engaged in close nature study, as evidenced by ...

I left the blue jay feather where I found it last week. In nature, someone always makes use of what someone else doesn’t need. Another creature will use it to line a nest or a burrow.