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

In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

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

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make their feathers look like those of dinosaurs. Here, we see feather buds on the 12th day of incubation.

originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE ...