Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

However, some dinosaur species were actually covered in feathers, just like birds today. We know this because some fossils from creatures such as Archaeopteryx and Sinosauropteryx — both ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated ...

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