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

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

Feathers are important for birds today, enabling flight, warmth, and communication. Now, researchers from the University of Geneva have traced the origin of feathers. Scientists b ...

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

While a transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers, it is much harder to disrupt ...

Inhibiting the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway strongly perturbs feather development in chickens by restricting feather bud outgrowth, invagination and ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...