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

Learn why scientists say it’s a rare case of animals exploiting their glow for visual signaling.

and thus disappear relatively quickly once birds no longer need to fly. But overall, the basic feather structure is like those load-bearing walls. It takes a lot of evolutionary time for the ...

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

The federal appeals court ruled that an entire bird species must be added to the approved import list, rather than granting permission on a country-by-country basis.

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

American wigeons are dabbling ducks that sometimes migrate through our area and have been spotted recently in Cambridge’s ...

Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, by providing protection ...