Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two chicken feet, one with feathers and one with scales. By tweaking a specific gene, scientists have discovered a way to ...

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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 ...