A 130-million-year-old fossil dinosaur covered with feathers is on display 25 April 2001, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Discovered in the 19th century, scientists once believed that the first-ever dinosaur feather used to belong to the Archaeopteryx, a transitional dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago and ...

The origin of feathers remains a mystery. By James Ashworth. First published . 19 February 2025. Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, ... As well as hunting for more ...

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 ...

And in their previous studies, the Swiss researchers proved that by injecting pathway-activating molecules into chicken embryos, scales on a bird’s feet can be transformed into feathers. This proved ...

The flying cousins of dinosaurs were able to change the colours of their feathers, researchers have found. An international group of palaeontologists have discovered that pterosaurs, the first ...

Strong but light, beautiful and precisely structured, feathers are the most complexskin appendage that ever evolved in vertebrates. Despite the fact Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

Electron microscopy image of the fossil skin, showing mineralized cell layers. Zixiao Yang. This implies that dinosaurs may have retained their scaly reptile skin during the early days of feather ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

Previous studies suggest that dinosaur feathers contained proteins that made them less stiff than modern bird feathers. Now, researchers have discovered that dinosaur feathers originally had a very ...