Birds & Blooms on MSN1d
All About Bird Wings and Flight Feathers
The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster ...
Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted With Feather-Like Flaps
Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency ...
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Evolution of Feathers
This feathers-led-to-flight notion began to unravel in the ... First came simple filaments. Later, different lineages of theropods evolved various kinds of feathers, some resembling the fluffy ...
Study Finds on MSN14d
What Did Dinosaur Feathers Look Like? Scientists May Have Recreated Them in Chickens
In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing the embryos to grow simplified, unbranched feather structures resembling ...
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When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change first
Previous research has revealed how long ago different species of flightless ... activity that it no longer did, or why feathers no longer required for flight wouldn’t be freed up to evolve ...