A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

There are more than 11,000 different bird species in the world that have a variety of colors. Recently, a group of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis wrote a study about why birds may ...

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 embryonic ...