In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set ... of their ancestors in favor of a novel suit of drag-­­reducing, minimum-buoyancy feathers. These feathers are a key part of the package ...

Then we clean and color the feathers before gluing them together to make boas, fans, and plumes. Our toughest customer is Big Bird. His tremendous costume uses feathers from the rear end of a ...

Many feathered dinosaurs couldn’t fly — at least, not like birds do today. But the reptiles’ feathers may have been more birdlike than scientists thought. Yet fossilization can change ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.