A staff member introduces a duvet with feather and down via live-streaming at an industrial park in Qiaoxu Township, Guigang ...

However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how the wings and feathers of flightless birds differ from their ...

Ornithologist Yosef Kiat, also from the Field Museum of Natural History, spearheaded the research by examining wing feathers from 346 bird species. Surprisingly, all flying birds, ranging from ...

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything composed of sheet metal and rivets. From a central feather shaft extends a series of slender barbs, each sprouting smaller barbules ...

Researchers attached covert feather-inspired flaps to a 3D-printed model airplane wing and mounted it in a wind tunnel to explore the role of covert feathers in bird flight. By precisely measuring ...

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 ...

NANNING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- As startling as it may seem, one in every five processed duck feathers worldwide today comes from Qiaoxu, a once-obscure township in south China's Guangxi Zhuang ...