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

Dinosaurs with feathers live all over the world today, and they are called birds. Birds are the closest relative to dinosaurs that are presently alive, and they are a type of reptile. Birds may ...

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

scientists have managed to make chicken feathers more similar to the tubular proto-feathers that probably first appeared in the ancestors of dinosaurs in the early Triassic period 250 million years ...

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 ...

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.

Inside the brain of T. rex: the most fearsome of dinosaurs was smarter than you might think “The discovery of feathered dinosaurs in China in the 1990s totally changed our perception of [them ...

Recreating the first dinosaur proto-feathers ‘‘Since the Shh pathway plays a crucial role in feather development, we wanted to observe what happens when it is inhibited,’’ explains Rory ...

“These fossils proved once and for all that today’s birds evolved from dinosaurs,” he said. “Today, we know that many had feathers and looked and acted much more like birds.” Before ...