A 'bizarre' material used by some birds to line their nests in tree cavities could actually save their offspring.

The Museum's avian skin collection is the second largest of its kind in the world, with almost 750,000 specimens representing about 95% of the world's bird species. The majority of specimens in this ...

When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn't just making an interesting home décor choice. For some birds, it keeps ...

The early bird Confuciusornis shed their skin in flaky ... "It's unusual to be able to study the skin of a dinosaur, and the fact this is dandruff proves the dinosaur was not shedding its whole ...

By expressing these genes in embryo alligator skin, the researchers caused ... But they initially evolved in dinosaurs, birds' extinct ancestors. Leading the study, Professor Cheng-Ming Chuong ...