Spots v stripes A discovery that reveals how bird feathers get their patterns also has implications for regenerative medicine, say scientists. Feathers not only keep birds warm and protect them from ...

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Mysterious tufts of fluff surrounding a dinosaur fossil from China are simple feathers. It's another piece of evidence supporting the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Palaeontologists at the ...

New Haven, Conn. -- Biologists testing a mathematical model of the mechanism birds use to control the growth of complex feathers found that plumed feather structures involve the coordination of at ...