Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...
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 ...
Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.
D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...
Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.
These primitive structures, composed of a single tubular filament, emerged around 200 million years ago in certain dinosaurs ... of scales into feathers on the bird’s feet.
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 ...
At the 12th day of incubation, feather buds exhibit longitudinal domains of cell density that correspond to the barbs of the future down feather.
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