The amber preserved the 3D structure of the enantiornithine feathers, giving researchers clues about where they were in the molting phase.Shundong Bi During the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million ...

Birds regularly shed and regrow their body and wing feathers in a process, called molting, that is critical for flight, migration, insulation, breeding and survival. A new study by University of Utah ...

Photo Caption: Margot, the Wellsummer, went through an ugly molting season. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.) It’s fall, and your chicken coop looks like a massacre happened inside with the number of ...

Researchers used 13 years' worth of data on 134 bird species to come to their conclusion. They studied molting patterns from 2011 to 2024 and found that fall migratory birds consistently molted a day ...

For the longest time, I had several chickens with bare backs and bare butts. Here are three common reasons chickens lose their feathers and what to do about it.

A reader wrote recently to ask, “Why is there a big drop in bird activity in the Village of Sloan?” That’s a question that might well be asked about any local community at this time of year. There are ...