For those animals, pennaceous feathers were probably display pieces. But other pennaraptorans, such as the small, four-winged, forest-dwelling Microraptor, are trickier to interpret. Many of the ...

These lovers come from different sides of the quacks. An off-Broadway version of “West Side Story” has been playing out in ...

Many “birds of a feather flock together,” but not all, and those that do, indulge in different degrees of flocking. “Birds of a feather” means one species, but sometimes a flock can ...

The melanosomes showed there were different feather types and shapes, showing pterosaurs were able to manipulate the colors. "In birds today, feather colour is strongly linked to melanosome shape ...

These creatures exhibit a variety of different feather types, which has helped paleontologists, ornithologists and developmental biologists understand how feathers went from simple, wispy ...

Some birds only have a few white feathers and are called pied or piebald birds. But leucism is different from albinism. In albinism, birds will be completely white, but also lose pigment in their ...

And in return, he gets some spots of his own! Our story is called “The Bird of a Different Feather.” Versions of this tale come from parts of Africa. We recorded this episode before a live ...