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Flock of Feathers Preserved in Cretaceous Amber (3 of 10) (IMAGE)
Overview of 16 clumped feather barbs in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber, specimen TMP 96.9.553. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 16, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS ...
Smoke detectors in the sky: Will wildfire affect bird behavior?
Ornithologists at the Natural History Museum and UCLA are studying how smoke from the January wildfires will affect the ...
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Evolution of Feathers
From a central feather shaft extends a series of slender barbs, each sprouting smaller barbules, like branches from a bough, lined with tiny hooks. When these grasp on to the hooklets of ...
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Feather Zipping and Unzipping (IMAGE)
Running a hand along a feather's barbs and watching as the feather unzips and zips, seeming to miraculously pull itself back together. That "magical" zipping mechanism could provide a model for ...