In the bustling amber markets of Myanmar, a paleontologist named Lida Xing has collected tiny golden time capsules containing prehistoric insects, a baby snake and most famously a dinosaur’s feathered ...

If you’ve ever been stuck behind a truck loaded with live poultry on a Shenandoah Valley road, you may have wondered: What happens to all of those feathers after processing? Eastern Bioplastics in ...

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 ...

“Birds of a feather flock together.” You’ve heard this phrase hundreds, or maybe even thousands of times — but do you know what it means? Do birds of a feather really flock together in nature, or is ...

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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 ...

Researchers say the feathered specimen known as “Ugly Foot” or “Hobbit Foot” offers long-sought clues to the evolutionary path of birds. By Nicholas St. Fleur In the bustling amber markets of Myanmar, ...