Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...

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 ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

And when birds lose flight, those feather features disappear in the opposite order that they first evolved." When bird embryos develop feathers, those feathers increase in complexity in the same ...

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

The eagle called Storm had a feather transplant and spent 389 days ... ragged so I followed him and realised he had damaged his flight feathers. "I think he was starving. He was trying to get ...