Chickens treated to inhibit the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway during development grow feathers that resemble ancient ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...

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

The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

and there's evidence for it in avian dinosaurs. "We found that adult body size and patterns of pre-hatching development are two important features of bird biology we can link to the genetic ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found. The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs, which look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren’t just funny ...

The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...

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