Chickens treated to inhibit the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway during development grow feathers that resemble ancient ...
Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...
A Middle Jurassic scene is preserved in the form of 131 footprints, pressed into the sands of a long-lost shallow freshwater ...
The researchers focused on bone articular fragments from therian mammals, a group that includes modern marsupials and ...
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Explore the fascinating world of dinosaur feathers and their evolution through groundbreaking research on chicken embryos.
The massive footprints are spaced about 30 inches apart in a consistent pattern that indicates they were ... and a small head ...
Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make their feathers look like those ...
Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...
Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...
Tweaking the Sonic Hedgehog gene can transform different aspects of development in chickens. For instance, transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers. But ...