Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make their feathers look like those of dinosaurs ... the complex branching pattern that develops as ...

Feathers evolved from simple structures called proto-feathers, which appeared around 200 million years ago in certain dinosaurs. These cylindrical filaments lacked the complexity of modern feathers.

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Instead of the formation of the usual barbed, complex feather buds, the embryos were showing signs of developing something like proto-feathers. These are simple, tube-like structures that are ...

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Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...

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In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of ... the complex branching pattern that develops as feathers ...

“In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway antagonism temporarily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken” by Rory L. Cooper and Michel C. Milinkovitch, 20 March 2025, PLOS Biology.