Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

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

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

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

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