North Jersey students are creating a video on climate change impacts to the region's ecosystem. A focus is the declining ...

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 ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with ...

At the 12th day of incubation, feather buds exhibit longitudinal domains of cell density that correspond to the barbs of the future down feather.

Mr. Cunningham was a milliner before he became a noted style photographer. Eight of his one-of-a-kind hats are now up for ...

Winkle’s bird was one of two oil-coated murres dropped off at Pacific Wildlife Care on March 7 — one from Morro Bay and the ...

A few years ago, advances in analytical approaches to studying fossils prompted researchers to become more interested in the ...

“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify ...

Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...