Step into a world of cheerful birds with colorful feathers that spread joy through their playful antics. This video captures ...

Birds are warm-blooded animals with feathers, wings, and a beak or bill. They lay eggs and are the only animals with feathers. Birds also have a light skeleton, with hollow bones that make it ...

The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US scientists. By expressing these genes in embryo alligator skin, the researchers caused the ...

From scales to feathers to fur, vertebrates clothe themselves ... Then University of Geneva biologist Michel Milinkovitch visited an Italian animal fair, found scaleless, “naked” bearded ...

In the humid shadows, meanwhile, darker hues prevail. There are two main ways in which animal skin, fur and feathers are colored. Some of the hues we perceive are from the interaction of light ...

An international team of scientists led by The University of Manchester has used state-of-the-art X-ray methods to analyse the chemistry of feathers of birds, in order to discover the true colours of ...