A transient change in expression of one gene (Shh) can produce a cascade of developmental events leading to the formation of feathers instead of scales. Credit: UNIGE / Cooper & Milinkovitch A ...

It's a new children's book that teaches love and acceptance by exploring many of the diverse bird family structures that mirror our own. Fern Wexler, author of, Birds of a Feather shared more about ...

In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its ...