At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

Tianyulong's discovery suggests both the two orders of dinosaurs - Saurischia and Ornithischia - developed proto-feathers. And because Tianyulong was among the most primitive of early dinosaurs ...

Paleontologists now recognize a spectrum of feather types, from simple filaments (sometimes called “dino-fuzz” or “proto-feathers”) to complex structures nearly identical to modern bird feathers. The ...

Paleontologists now recognize a spectrum of feather types, from simple filaments (sometimes called “dino-fuzz” or “proto-feathers”) to complex structures nearly identical to modern bird feathers. The ...

and resulted in unbranched and non-invaginated feather buds, akin to putative proto-feathers,until embryonic day 14. Although feather development partially recovered later during development, hatched ...

These simplified structures looked surprisingly similar to what scientists believe dinosaur “proto-feathers” looked like. This change wasn’t permanent. As the embryos continued developing ...

Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from modern avians. A new study has just pushed the boundary of evolutionary ...

By manipulating a key signaling pathway, they’ve recreated structures resembling proto-feathers, revealing just how resilient and evolutionarily refined the feather-development process has become.

The earliest feathers didn’t help animals fly. Instead, they started as simple, hollow filaments. These “proto-feathers” likely emerged in some dinosaurs during the Triassic period, around 200 million ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much simpler structures called proto-feathers, which first appeared in some ...

In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of simple tube-shaped proto-feathers that likely first emerged in ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...