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Auklets and penguins: birds use feathers 'to touch'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8500000/8500620.stm

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8498142.stm

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10106530.stm

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 fossil