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

Feathers belonging to a griffon vulture that died around 30,000 years ago have become the first fossils of their kind, ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

More than the birds, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary offers of world of natural discoveries with its Summer Nature Camps designed for ...

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

and they may break apart these gravitationally powered feathers — which means we would be back to square one. Still, it's a promising hypothesis and shows that nature is perfectly capable of ...

Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...