Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is ...

Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from ...

Explore the fascinating world of dinosaur feathers and their evolution through groundbreaking research on chicken embryos.

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

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

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...

This research provides new insights into the morphogenetic mechanisms that led to feather diversification throughout evolution ... dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken ...