In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its ...

Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning back the clock. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

(Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one revealed ...

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The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of simple tube-shaped proto-feathers that likely first emerged in the ...

Palaeontologists have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X ...

Maria McNamara is a palaeobiologist at University College Cork. Her current research is funded by the European Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland. Zixiao Yang is a PhD student in ...

Advances in scientific technology are upending what we know about pterosaurs, the reptilian close cousins to dinosaurs who were the first of Earth’s vertebrates to achieve flapping-powered flight.