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

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is part of a broader effort to understand how and why feathers evolved.

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

By inhibiting the key gene Sonic Hedgehog at the stage of embryonic development, scientists have managed to make chicken feathers more similar to the tubular proto-feathers that probably first ...

The humble and unassuming chicken is considered to be the closest bird related to dinosaurs. Chickens evolved from therapods ...

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

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 ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make their feathers look like those of dinosaurs. Here, we see feather buds on the 12th day of incubation.