Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything ... transforming them from gliders to true powered fliers. In short, the evolution of feathers would have happened along with the ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...

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

The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

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Scientists believe many of these features appeared at various points across the evolution of maniraptorans – the group of theropod dinosaurs that contains both birds and their closest relatives.

From the Galapagos Islands to New Zealand, species of birds that exist today model characteristics of their ancestors that provide clues to the environmental forces that shaped their evolution.

More: A dinosaur museum in an unlikely place Edward Braun, a professor of biology at the University of Florida who has studied the evolution ... birds that easily fly by flapping their wings ...

In a new study in the journal Evolution ... to change when birds lose flight, possibly even before the flight feathers become symmetrical, is the proportion of their wings and their tails.