Feathers from the same bird species have been used to decorate both tippets which indicate that they were made in the same geographical area. Every museum has objects in their collection about ...

Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

Whoever the Hawaiians thought Cook was, however, they presented him with the gift of a chieftain's helmet - a rare and precious object made of yellow and red feathers. Cook recognised it as an ...

Later their edges could have frayed and split, turning them into the first true feathers. It made sense too that this change occurred as an adaptation for flight. Imagine the ancestors of birds as ...

the two objects interfere with each other while falling. The recommended gentle shake in the horizontal position makes these occurrences very unlikely. [describes an experiment in which Boyle ...