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

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

Aptly named, Storm the wedge-tailed eagle has been released back into the wild more than a year after being injured in wild ...

To withstand the force of the oncoming air, a flight feather is shaped asymmetrically, the leading edge thin and stiff, the trailing edge long and flexible. To generate lift, a bird has merely to ...

Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

"Feathers are complex structures that have a really well-defined developmental sequence that's hard to change. And when birds lose flight, those feather features disappear in the opposite order ...

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 ...

Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton University have found a new trick in their arsenal: covert feathers. These small feathers on top of birds’ wings lay ...