The answer is not as simple as saying, “because birds fly.” Birds such as penguins, emus and kiwis don’t fly at all despite having complex feathers. But most birds do fly, and their entire bodies, ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --New analysis of the remains of a bird-like dinosaur called Anchiornis suggests feathered dinosaurs were fluffier than researchers thought. Modern birds are the evolutionary offspring ...

This is a closeup of a back contour feather barb from a male eastern bluebird; demonstrates a protein with channel-type nanostructure. (Scale bar = 500 nanometers.) Image courtesy of Richard Prum Lab ...

Each Canada goose that you see flying around in formation around Lancaster County these days has between 20,000 and 25,000 feathers, most hidden from sight. A typical songbird at your backyard feeder ...