And the glorious feathers ... to do with the way the birds rest.) And because flamingos live in such remote areas and pick up and move as feeding grounds flood or dry out, researchers have ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

Both scales and feathers are flat. So perhaps the scales of the birds' ancestors had stretched out, generation after generation. Later their edges could have frayed and split, turning them into ...