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Auklets and penguins: birds use feathers 'to touch'
Birds may use their feathers for touch, using them to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8500000/8500620.stm
2010-02-05
feather
touch
senses
bird
whisker
cat
Dinosaur had flamboyant, multi-coloured plumage
A study of a 150 million year old dinosaur fossil has revealed it had multi-coloured feathers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8498142.stm
2010-02-04
dinosaur
feather
colour
Fossil reveals early bird plumage
A new study of a 150-million-year-old fossil of an Archaeopteryx has shown that remnants of its feathers have been preserved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10106530.stm
2010-05-10
Archaeopteryx
bird
feather
evolution
DNA
cloning
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