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What Did Dinosaur Feathers Look Like? Scientists May Have Recreated Them in Chickens
In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...
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Chicken Embryos Grow Dinosaur-like Feathers After Gene Switch
Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from ...
How Chickens Grew Dinosaur Feathers (Then Changed Back)
Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...
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Scientists Disrupted A Key Gene – And It Made Chicken Feathers More Dinosaur-Like
From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...
Dinosaur footprints unknowingly displayed in a high school for 20 years
A large boulder used as decoration in a rural Australian high school’s foyer is actually covered in dinosaur footprints —it ...
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Chickens sprouted dino-like feathers when scientists messed with the Sonic Hedgehog gene
Tweaking the Sonic Hedgehog gene can transform different aspects of development in chickens. For instance, transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers. But ...
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Meet North America’s oldest dino: Found in Wyoming, named in Shoshone language
Meet Ahvaytum bahndooiveche. The dinosaur is slightly larger than a chicken, with a long tail, beaklike mouth and feathers. It lived a very, very long time ago: 230 million years in the past.