A rare feather from an extinct New Zealand bird set a record at auction after selling for $46,521 NZD ($28,400 USD), the Webb's auction house announced Monday. The huia bird, of the wattlebird family, ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies ...

INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 15: Billie Eilish performs with Labrinth at the Mojave Tent during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 15, 2023 in Indio, California. Billie Eilish's ...

A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur named in Germany on this day in 1861. This ...

A single feather of an extinct bird was auctioned off in New Zealand on Monday for about NZ$46,521, or about $28,000, making it the most expensive feather ever sold worldwide. The feather of the huia, ...

For film actors, winning an Oscar is the ultimate feather in one’s cap, so to speak. But this year at the 2026 Oscars, many attendees wore them quite literally. Bird fashions weren’t a particularly ...

To settle a lengthy debate, a team of paleontologists says the specimen unearthed in the 19th century was shed by an archaeopteryx. By Lucas Joel The feather looks like any feather you might find on ...