An insider's look at the feather, a marvel of bioengineering

Feathers are light, tough, flexible and strong. They achieve this combination of traits through a complicated internal structure that we are only just beginning to fully understand, with the aid of unlikely research assistants – fungi.

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Dramatic restructuring of dinosaur feathers revealed by two youngsters of same species

Bird of paradise creates colourful dance with microscopic mirrors in its feathers

Can the origin of feathers be explained through evolution ?

First birds were poor fliers – flaps would have buckled Archaeopteryx feathers

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73,111 Pigeon Feathers Isolated Images, Stock Photos, 3D

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