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

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

slabs of stone containing exquisitely detailed fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, and especially pterosaurs, covering every inch of shelf and most of the floor. A Rhamphorhynchus ...

"Pterosaurs were just the coolest things that ... a display device like the horns and antlers of mammals or the fancy feathers of birds," Bennett said. "I believe that Pteranodon was polygynous ...

Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

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

Look out the window long enough and you’ll see a modern-day dinosaur making use of its feathers to soar across the sky. It’s impressive, but is flying what feathers first evolved to do?

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation ... of their even earlier presence in the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings) around 240 ...

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