Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a material traversed by a network of channels the size of micrometres in the same way as the microstructure of a bird's feather. To do so they have developed a ...

Poor insulation from primitive feathers may explain why some ancient birds went extinct after the asteroid impact ...

The iridescent shimmer that makes birds such as peacocks and hummingbirds so striking is rooted in a natural nanostructure so complex that people are only just beginning to replicate it ...

A bird feather found in fossilized dinosaur poop is the best-preserved feather ever recovered by paleontologists from dinosaur-era rock, according to a new study.

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely preserved in the fossilised dropping ...

(Nanowerk News) The eastern bluebird is a special bird. The blue of its feathers is unique. However, this colour is not based on pigments but on the special structure of the feather. Viewed under the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows what a male and female Plumadraco, a bird that lived about 121 million years during the Cretaceous Period in ...

The post Some Birds' Feathers Are Designed to Self-Destruct on Schedule appeared first on A-Z Animals. For most birds, looking good for spring means undergoing a partial molt. Because feathers are ...

The eastern bluebird is a special bird. The blue of its feathers is unique. However, this colour is not based on pigments but on the special structure of the feather. Viewed under the microscope, the ...

The researchers found an evolutionary tweak in feather nanostructure that has more than doubled the range of iridescent colors birds can display. This insight could help researchers understand how and ...