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 ...

And now two researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have unveiled the clearest picture yet of how dinosaurs’ proto-feathers became the soft and vibrant feathers we know today.

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 ...

In recent years, palaeontologists have found evidence of "proto feathers" in a huge range of different dinosaur species. "Feathered dinosaurs have unusual so called proto-feathers… it looks like ...

Its position in the dinosaur family tree raises big questions about the origins of feathers. If its filaments are related to the proto-feathers of the theropods (which is possible but not certain ...

The "proto-feathers" may have been used to keep the smaller dinosaurs warm in polar habitats Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

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 ...

Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University What are the origins of wings and tails in birds? This is one of the key questions in the evolution of animals.

such as so-called pennaceous feathers (present in most modern birds). These were found on distal forelimbs of certain species like Caudipteryx, serving as proto-wings that were too small to use ...

When John had caught his breath, I reminded him that this discovery confirmed his hypothesis that some sort of proto-feathers had evolved in the theropod ancestors of birds. John had proposed 2 ...

While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies suggest that feathers evolved from simple structures known as proto-feathers.