By contrast, the elements of the feather attachments (barbules) are spaced equally for all bird species to optimally control airflow. Scientists discover universal principles of evolution Birds ...

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Many scientists have been critical of this hypothesis, and Dr. Carney and his team set out to counter it by studying the shape of the feather. They hoped to see whether it matched the anatomy of ...

Microraptor was an exquisitely feathered dinosaur. The small, sickle-clawed predator, which lived about 120 million years ago, was covered in well-developed plumage, including long feathers on its ...

They do this with their feathers. Thanks to some specialized feather anatomy, ornithologists Kimberly Bostwick and Richard Prum found, the male manakins are able to rub their feathers together to ...

The fossil record of birds in the Mesozoic of Gondwana is mostly based on isolated and often poorly preserved specimens, none of which has preserved details on feather anatomy. We provide the ...