In short, the evolution of feathers would have happened along with the evolution of flight. This feathers-led-to-flight notion began to unravel in the 1970s, when Yale University paleontologist ...

GENEVA — From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather. Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ...

20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation ... These findings challenge the traditional view of brain evolution and demonstrate that, while ...

Alteration of the expression of the co-called 'Sonic Hedgehog' gene can transform feet scale and wing feathers. While a transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into ...

Xu envisions feather evolution as an incremental process. Feathers in their most primitive form were single filaments, resembling quills, that jutted from reptilian skin. These simple structures ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...

There are five primary types (bottom row) of pigment-filled sacks, called melanosomes, within the nanostructure (left)` of iridescent feathers. Thick rods are found in birds with weak iridescent ...