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Mar. 28, 2019 Feather mites help to remove bacteria and fungi from the feathers of birds, according to a new study. In fact, the relationship between these mites and their hosts could be considered mutualism, with ...
June 3, 2019 New research suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds -- changing how we look at dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying ...
Dec. 10, 2018 Iridescence is responsible for some of the most striking visual displays in the animal kingdom. Now, thanks to a new study of feathers from almost 100 modern bird species, scientists have gained new ...
Jan. 28, 2019 Researchers have performed molecular analysis on fossil feathers from a small, feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic. Their research could aid scientists in pinpointing when feathers evolved the ...
Feb. 5, 2018 Small birds are more energy-efficient than bats when flying. Researchers previously believed this was due to air resistance created by the bats' ears. However, biologists have now discovered ...
Nov. 12, 2019 A cache of 118 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur and bird feathers has been recovered from an ancient lake deposit that once lay beyond the southern polar ...
Oct. 12, 2017 Many birds and other wildlife die following an oil spill, but there are also other potential long-terms effects of oil exposure on ...
Feb. 21, 2018 A new model based on ground-running birds could predict locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs based on their speed and body size, according to a new ...
Dec. 17, 2018 An international team of palaeontologists has discovered that the flying reptiles, pterosaurs, actually had four kinds of feathers, and these are shared with dinosaurs -- pushing back the origin of ...
Nov. 9, 2017 Many animals will sound an alarm to alert other members of their group of impending danger. Now, researchers have shown that crested pigeons do this in a surprisingly non-vocal way. One of their main ...
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