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Two Mechanical Engineering graduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Adedoyin Adebodun Adeleke and Oyenuga Adekitan Abimbola, have made the fastest known electrically-operated chicken ...

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is part of a broader effort to understand how and why feathers evolved.

In a new study, researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development to make chicken feathers more primitive, like the kind of simple tube-shaped proto-feathers that likely first emerged in the ...