Scientists have long suspected that aging may happen in bursts, but they only began using molecular signals to measure the ...

In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...

Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, “a breath of fresh air” for the climate movement, is helping people envision and ...

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

The National Eagle Center stated the bald eagle becoming the national bird is important, because it unifies all Americans.

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The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...

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

North Jersey students are creating a video on climate change impacts to the region's ecosystem. A focus is the declining ...

One of the nation’s leading experts on a critically endangered bird says potential federal spending cuts could spell doom for ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...