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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail FeathersA incredibly well preserved fossil bird with very long tail feathers on a pale rock.

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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail FeathersA incredibly well preserved fossil bird with very long tail feathers on a pale rock.
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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail Feathers

clock-iconMay 27, 2026

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Birds, Hats, And Boycotts: The Story Behind Why It’s A Crime To Collect FeathersWomen wear bird plume hats in late 1800s early 1900s.

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Birds, Hats, And Boycotts: The Story Behind Why It’s A Crime To Collect FeathersWomen wear bird plume hats in late 1800s early 1900s.
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Birds, Hats, And Boycotts: The Story Behind Why It’s A Crime To Collect Feathers

clock-iconOctober 27, 2025
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Color Vs. Flight: Are Darker Birds' Feathers Weighing Them Down?A golden eagle soars over Seedskadee NWR.

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Color Vs. Flight: Are Darker Birds' Feathers Weighing Them Down?A golden eagle soars over Seedskadee NWR.
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Color Vs. Flight: Are Darker Birds' Feathers Weighing Them Down?

clock-iconAugust 22, 2025

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247-Million-Year-Old Punky Reptile Had A Mohawk Made Of Weird AppendagesArtist's impression of Mirasaura grauvogeli

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247-Million-Year-Old Punky Reptile Had A Mohawk Made Of Weird AppendagesArtist's impression of Mirasaura grauvogeli
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247-Million-Year-Old Punky Reptile Had A Mohawk Made Of Weird Appendages

clock-iconJuly 23, 2025
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30,000-Year-Old Feathers Fossilized In Zeolite Reveal Never-Before-Seen Mineralization‘The Doom of the Alban Hills’ a digital painting representing a possible scenario of the moments before the vulture carcass was entombed in the pyroclastic current. Next to a photo of the fossilized feather preserved with the volcanic rock.

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30,000-Year-Old Feathers Fossilized In Zeolite Reveal Never-Before-Seen Mineralization‘The Doom of the Alban Hills’ a digital painting representing a possible scenario of the moments before the vulture carcass was entombed in the pyroclastic current. Next to a photo of the fossilized feather preserved with the volcanic rock.
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30,000-Year-Old Feathers Fossilized In Zeolite Reveal Never-Before-Seen Mineralization

clock-iconMarch 21, 2025
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Scientists Disrupted A Key Gene – And It Made Chicken Feathers More Dinosaur-Likeimage of the skin of a chicken embryo treated with a molecule that affects normal feather development; its feather buds are instead simple tube shapes that resemble those seen in some species of dinosaur

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Scientists Disrupted A Key Gene – And It Made Chicken Feathers More Dinosaur-Likeimage of the skin of a chicken embryo treated with a molecule that affects normal feather development; its feather buds are instead simple tube shapes that resemble those seen in some species of dinosaur
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Scientists Disrupted A Key Gene – And It Made Chicken Feathers More Dinosaur-Like

clock-iconMarch 21, 2025
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Did Anything Have Feathers Before The Dinosaurs?The discovery of Sinosauropteryx showed that non-bird dinosaurs could also have feathers. Fossil shows upside-down dinosaur with little brown feathers

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Did Anything Have Feathers Before The Dinosaurs?The discovery of Sinosauropteryx showed that non-bird dinosaurs could also have feathers. Fossil shows upside-down dinosaur with little brown feathers
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Did Anything Have Feathers Before The Dinosaurs?

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The Largest Feathered Dinosaur Was A 9-Meter-Long Bipedal Predatora yutryannus hauli covered in protofeathers walking in grass

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The Largest Feathered Dinosaur Was A 9-Meter-Long Bipedal Predatora yutryannus hauli covered in protofeathers walking in grass
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The Largest Feathered Dinosaur Was A 9-Meter-Long Bipedal Predator

clock-iconJune 10, 2024
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Scales That Led To Hair And Feathers Evolved Before Reptiles, 300-Million-Year-Old Fossils HintWestern Fence Lizard playing dead

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Scales That Led To Hair And Feathers Evolved Before Reptiles, 300-Million-Year-Old Fossils HintWestern Fence Lizard playing dead
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Scales That Led To Hair And Feathers Evolved Before Reptiles, 300-Million-Year-Old Fossils Hint

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“Hidden Gem” Fossil Of Dinosaur Skin Preserved Like Glass Reveals It Had Scales And Feathersa psittacosaurus fossil in natural and UV light to see the fossil skin better

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“Hidden Gem” Fossil Of Dinosaur Skin Preserved Like Glass Reveals It Had Scales And Feathersa psittacosaurus fossil in natural and UV light to see the fossil skin better
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“Hidden Gem” Fossil Of Dinosaur Skin Preserved Like Glass Reveals It Had Scales And Feathers

clock-iconMay 21, 2024
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Extinct Bird’s Baby Feathers Found Locked In 99-Million-Year-Old Amberfeather fossil baby bird

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Extinct Bird’s Baby Feathers Found Locked In 99-Million-Year-Old Amberfeather fossil baby bird
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Extinct Bird’s Baby Feathers Found Locked In 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

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Turning Scales Into Feathers Is A Lot Easier Than We ThoughtThe feathered foot of a chicken who got the molecule (left) versus a regular one (right).

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Turning Scales Into Feathers Is A Lot Easier Than We ThoughtThe feathered foot of a chicken who got the molecule (left) versus a regular one (right).
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Turning Scales Into Feathers Is A Lot Easier Than We Thought

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Barn Owls And Ghosts Have Something Important In CommonA barn owl is in flight against a dark backdrop.

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Barn Owls And Ghosts Have Something Important In CommonA barn owl is in flight against a dark backdrop.
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Barn Owls And Ghosts Have Something Important In Common

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Stunning Woodcock Is Now The Brightest Bird Known To Scienceeurasian woodcock

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Stunning Woodcock Is Now The Brightest Bird Known To Scienceeurasian woodcock
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Stunning Woodcock Is Now The Brightest Bird Known To Science

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Never-Before-Seen Gold-Throated Hummingbird Hybrid Stuns Scientistsgold-throated hummingbird hybrid

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Never-Before-Seen Gold-Throated Hummingbird Hybrid Stuns Scientistsgold-throated hummingbird hybrid
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Never-Before-Seen Gold-Throated Hummingbird Hybrid Stuns Scientists

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