Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal ...

Despite the large wings, which have a span the size of an average human’s arm, it’s a mystery as to whether or not the raptor cousin could fly. Brussatte said he doubts they could, based on ...

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers comfortably falls into this category of games. Developed by Lenzee, it bears striking similarities ...

Birds make beautiful chirping songs, but have you ever seen them make music with their wings? That is one of the skills of ...

A Wingstop customer says the wing chain “played in [her] face” after her $45 worth of wings appeared to contain something called “filaments.” Filaments are part of a chicken’s feather ...

Posted: Aug 15, 2008 Peacock feathers and butterfly wings inspire bio-templated nanotechnology materials (Nanowerk Spotlight) Photonic crystals – also known as photonic band gap material – are similar ...

Bostwick found the answer when she experimented with unattached wing feathers. She could feel a kinked wing feather catch on ridges when it scraped against a neighboring feather’s shaft.

While the wing feathers of Archaeopteryx and Anchiornis show striking similarities, they are not identical, and their differences appear to represent early experiments in the evolution of the wing, ...

The club-winged manakin is a rare bird that creates music using its wings, not its voice, producing unique sounds to attract ...