Feathers might seem like a pretty mundane part of nature, although it's a little-known fact that they have a strong bond with the heavens and all spiritual realms. Our guardian angels scatter feathers ...

Eagles and other birds will lose flight feathers symmetrically during molting season. However, if an eagle loses a feather on one wing through injury or accident, it will not automatically shed the ...

WASHINGTON — Angelica Chavis, a third-year law student in North Carolina, received her prized eagle feather from a tribal elder at age 7, when she was crowned Little Miss Lumbee. And she’s planning to ...

Something as soft and delicate as a feather seems like it should not last millennia, let alone millions of years. But if feathers did not persist, paleontologists would never know almost every group ...