When you think of a feather, what comes to mind? Peacock plumage in flamboyant, iridescent blues? Or maybe a leafy glade full of forest creatures and woodsy hues? The natural beauty and extraordinary ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

So, you think you’ve seen it all until you run across a teardrop camper made of friggin feathers! No joke. The team trying out this innovative material is New Mexico-based Earth Traveler. Follow us: ...

DRAYTON, N.D. -- Linda Merrill uses the plumage of pheasants to create birds of another feather. Merrill, the owner of Framed Nature in Drayton, makes artwork, including pictures, pins and hair ...

In late autumn a male great horned owl sent his soft, deep hoots out from a stand of trees in Minnetonka. He'd been away for two months and was making it known that this was still his territory, after ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) -- A local artist's work is a feather in his cap. Bill Harm of Council Bluffs paints wildlife pictures on white turkey feathers and displays the pieces at art shows ...