Part of admiring birds — a large part, in fact — is admiring their feathers. After all, without its gold, a goldfinch would just be a finch, and a bluebird would be… well, a bird. Whether vibrant red, ...

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

Clues to why modern birds managed to survive without going extinct have been discovered in fossilized dinosaur feces, or ...

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

If you see a feather on the ground, is it illegal to pick it up and take it home? In a word, yes. In more words, yes, but with a few caveats. Snowy egrets were driven nearly to extinction before the ...