Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with the heavens and all spiritual realms. Our guardian angels scatter feathers ...

When it comes to luck and fortune, if you hear the word "black" in front of anything, it is usually seen as a bad omen. Some examples are black cats, a black heart, the Black Plague, and so on.

It was the absence of feathers that got conservation biologist Thor Hanson thinking about the significance of them. Hanson was in Kenya studying the feeding habits of vultures, and he noticed the ...

A new study on pterosaur fossils reveal that the prehistoric reptile had feathers, meaning that dinosaurs and bird descendants weren't the only creatures that had plumage. Pterosaurs' hair-like ...

A transitional species that represents a link between dinosaurs and birds may have sported pale feathers that were dark at the tips, a new study suggests. For the study, detailed in the June 13 issue ...