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"feathers" Definitions
  1. the plumage of a bird
  2. Also called: feathering
  3. the long hair on the legs or tail of certain breeds of horses and dogs
  4. informal
  5. dress; attire
  6. her best feathers
  7. ruffle feathers
  8. to cause upset or offence

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But the feathers did have barbs and barbules—a pattern of branching found in modern feathers—suggesting that this feature arose quite early in the evolution of feathers.
However, the "proto-feathers" that were discovered on the prehistoric animals were more comparable to "hair-like" feathers, not the typical fuzzy feathers found on birds, the release clarified.
I've been collecting feathers ever since and have also incorporated feathers into my dress style.
" It added, "With ~ 8,000 feathers on a chicken that&aposs almost 2,300 chickens worth of feathers.
Because the privileged need their feathers ruffled, and my ability to ruffle feathers is second to none.
Others wrote that the dodos had no feathers, only downy feathers or were simply covered in down.
Not only do clean feathers keep birds warmer, "birds can fly better with clean feathers," said Panetti.
The feathers' structure lacked a well-developed central shaft, or rachis, a feature found in modern bird feathers.
This suggests that the feathers grew quickly, unlike modern birds, which take time to grow their mature feathers.
Sleek contour feathers over thick down, pearls of water running over white feathers thick and curled as paper sculpture.
The dress needed three kinds of feathers, he decided, each of which had to be painted and arranged in a different way: short goose feathers at the bust, tightly fanned to provide support; long, loosely gathered rooster feathers at the hips and belly; and a riot of ostrich feathers in the train.
The sample preserves a strange combination of features, like having functional wing feathers but not a lot of body feathers.
Feathers have never been found on a T. rex specimen, but fossils of other tyrannosaur species do have preserved feathers.
A number of them were discovered with preserved feathers, but until recently the feathers had not been described in detail.
These Puredown pillows consist of goose down and feathers, which typically carries a higher price tag than duck down and feathers.
Instead, all the feathers follow wrist and finger motion automatically via the elastic ligament that connects the feathers to the skeleton.
In Gibraltar, there's evidence that Neanderthals extracted the feathers of certain birds — only dark feathers — possibly for aesthetic or ceremonial purposes.
Falcon feathers are stiff, like jet-fighter wings, for stability at high altitudes; owl feathers are soft and barbed, to muffle their descent on prey; sandgrouse feathers soak up water, so their chicks can sip them in the desert.
Short, hair-like feathers covered their bodies and wings but lacked the strong central shaft of avian flight feathers, the researchers said.
The amber preserved the animal's bones, soft tissues, and its feathers, which gives scientists an unprecedented glimpse at how dinosaur feathers developed.
This is the mechanism found in hummingbird tail feathers, and it is one of several ways that feathers can make bird calls.
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In contrast with the sleek, aerodynamically designed feathers seen on modern birds, these feathers were most likely for insulation, the researchers said.
Bald-eagle feathers zip up to keep out moisture; mourning-dove feathers rotate individually to control flight; golden-crowned-kinglet feathers keep the bird's body so insulated that it may be a hundred and forty degrees warmer than the air.
The feathers on the wings and tail looked more like modern bird feathers, but lacked the curved aerodynamic structure that allows for flight.
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The new study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests pycnofibres are true feathers, pushing back the origin of feathers by about 70 million years.
If pterosaurs had feathers, that means that feathers probably weren't a dinosaur innovation, but were first developed in a deeper ancestor on the family tree.
Single feathers had also been found in amber, but without the bones, no one could conclusively say the feathers were dinosaur and not ancient bird.
But the big discovery was that even these primitive feathers had velcro-like hooks that allow feathers to lie flat against each other, called barbules.
Scientists also discovered that the feathers were unique from one another as they found "distinct bands" of melanosomes or color pigmentation on the fossilized feathers.
There also is a striking contemporary artwork, his own 33-hour creation, made of 23,227 black feathers slashed with a stripe of 216,000 red feathers.
But she said it had to have real feathers, so I used a bajillion feathers, and nobody knew what she was, but she didn't care.
The crimson gown boasted a 10-foot-long train, 30,000 burned and dyed coque feathers, and was made of tulle, silk organza, and down feathers.
As quick as that, it's over, and the feathers, the prettiest feathers you'll ever see, lift and dance and float away on the breeze. ♦
Fossilized feathers only preserve when they're pigmented, so by mapping the presence and absence of feathers, the scientists were able to tease out its color patterns.
The pillows do contain a high percentage of goose feathers along with the goose down, though with the ratio being 95% feathers and just 5% down.
The researchers said the appearance of feathers in both groups suggests feathers first evolved perhaps 250 million years ago in a common ancestor of pterosaurs and dinosaurs.
The researchers didn't have enough information to determine whether the bird lacked feathers because it was a baby, or if the evidence of feathers just wasn't preserved.
Flight is the intuitive answer, but the first planar feathers were probably too primitive for flight or gliding, lacking the distinct asymmetry that makes birds' feathers aerodynamic.
In March, their wings and tail feathers would be replaced, and by the end of July, all their feathers would be replaced -- just in time for breeding season.
Mr. Smithwick mapped the pigmented feathers on the fossils, finding that the Sinosauropteryx had brownish feathers covering its back and sides that stopped about halfway down its body.
Many of the adults had retreated uphill to molt, a process that involves standing still for several weeks, itchy and hungry, while new feathers push out old feathers.
A mysterious wooden yard sign ("Yard Sign with White Feathers," 2019), crowned with feathers and covered with a nest of painted white cross marks, recalls Southern yard art.
"Either the young dinosaurs needed these tail feathers for some function we don't know about, or they were growing their feathers really differently from most living birds," Poust said.
Dinosaurs — even the Tyrannosaurus rex — likely had feathers.
Goose feathers are rounded at the tip; turkey feathers are squared off—you can layer them like marquetry or glue them to a ribbon and gather them into a flower.
Feathers were flying, and even in the moment I still thought how beautiful the floating red feathers looked and the brilliance of the bird's red wings against Echo's black fur.
Kevin Hart's been ruffling feathers lately with his cheating scandal but Thursday it was him who got his feathers ruffled while hilariously dressed in a chicken costume for his new flick.
Some will say feathers originated independently three or four times—pterosaurs, ornithischians, theropods—we say: Show us evidence that the pterosaur feathers are actually different in any way from these others.
Let (2017)However, the researchers don't rule out that maybe juvenile T. rex had feathers and lost them as they grew, or that all T. rex had feathers on their back.
With Microraptor, paleontologists beheld the first dinosaur outfitted with asymmetrical feathers on its hind limbs and forelimbs — that is, feathers designed specifically to aid flight instead of for warmth or display.
Wait till you see the fossilized feathers — believe it!
Birds without their weird little P8 feathers made whistles that had completely different high notes, suggesting that the modified feather, perhaps in combination with the feathers surrounding it, was the noisy culprit.
University of Bristol paleontologist and study co-author Mike Benton said four types of pterosaur feathers were observed: downy feathers; single filaments; bundles of filaments; and filaments with tufts at the end.
" Saag's partner Hazel Jonker, a member of the Greens party in SA, likens the process to "wool, and sheep shorn for wool": "The feathers are harvested, the birds grow new feathers again.
Then the scientists ran two sets of tests at varying wind velocities, much like they did with the living birds: one with feathers, and one with the feathers removed from the carcass.
So usually in previous years it's just been ducks and crows and pigeon feathers, but for some reason this year more parakeet, so, you know, you see the little yellowy-green feathers.
Australians Are Mailing In Feathers to Help Find Out: A fun story about clever crowdsourcing of climate change research — by asking Australians to pick up feathers and put them in the post.
Previous studies on dinosaur coloring have had to rely on the difficult task of capturing information from melansomes -- tiny structures buried within feathers that give them color -- and comparing them with bird feathers.
The discovery also sheds light on the evolution of feathers.
I found her as a pile of feathers one day.
This young kestrel was found with its feathers cut off.
"I don't care about ruffling feathers," Lee tells me pointedly.
The feathers were flying at one Danish zoo this week.
He offers Dean and Rachel feathers as a welcome gift.
Lindner held a bridal bouquet made of fallen parrot feathers.
Porter wore feathers to a 2019 Fashion for Relief event.
But it may not ruffle many feathers in the industry.
As such, Cooper's presence at the DNC is ruffling feathers.
The flower arrangements were beautiful with lots of large feathers.
He tosses a bird into a fan, spraying feathers everywhere.
Feathers have remained largely unchanged for a hundred million years.
Actually, it looks like lots of feathers are being ruffled.
Passionate scavenger hunters have ruffled a few feathers this year.
The remainder, which acted as controls, had no feathers removed.
He's been under the care of Fallen Feathers ever since.
There are some feathers coming at you from my end.
He's just ruffling the feathers of people that are powerful.
A collection of jars contain down feathers, foam, curly wool.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Comcast is earning its peacock feathers.
You can also get yarn, leather, feathers, beads, glitter etc.
Feathers embellish a dress from Vera Wang's 2017 fall collection.
He had one week to cover it in silver feathers.
"I'd never seen feathers manipulated that way," Barnowske told me.
Not twigs, leaves or even feathers, but its own saliva.
You can add a couple more feathers to the scale.
Nell had photographed peacock feathers before, albeit at lower magnification.
Yonex orders thousands of goose feathers a year from China.
These feathers could have floated from a long way off.
Out on the catwalk, feathers gleam on bodices and skirts.
Paleontologists have discovered that many dinosaurs were covered in feathers.
Done. A swooping wing featuring turkey, duck and goose feathers?
Some inferior down pillows are really stuffed mostly with feathers.
Plus, feathers are not as soft and fluffy as down.
The cover is tough, too, preventing feathers from leaking out.
The rest of the feathers were most likely lightly colored.
Textured embellishments like feathers and fringe made an unexpected appearance.
Iridescent nylon anoraks floated over shift dresses dangling plastic feathers.
When not breeding the male loses his elaborate tail feathers.
The Long Feathers entered their first Indian Relay in 2013.
Now he's ruffling feathers at the Department of Homeland Security.
Rihanna wore ruffled feathers in this Elie Saab couture gown.
It lacked the long, strong flight feathers characteristic of birds.
"We're going to have a popsicle with feathers," DeBartolo said.
Mallard ducks use their own feathers to insulate their nests.
What she heard suggested that 21 Savage had ruffled feathers.
Ben also added baguettes to the feathers of his wings.
The surprising discovery described by scientists on Monday means that dinosaurs and their bird descendants were not the only creatures to boast feathers and that feathers likely appeared much longer ago than previously known.
"We're seeing feathers still attached to the tail, and we can see how they attach, the shapes that they have down to the micrometer scale, and things like pigment patterns within the feathers," McKellar said.
By fusing stiff, Victorian portraits with the feathers and faces of birds, Angelucci seeks to "embody many themes of the nineteenth century," and expose her ruffled feathers to the many problematic issues of the time.
The cockatoo had lost his wing feathers in the accident, so medical staff proceeded with "imping" — collecting the feathers of a deceased donor bird and sticking them on the cockatoo with super glue and matchsticks.
I never collected feathers at that stage, I had nothing to do with feathers, I got out of the shower the morning I was leaving and there was a white feather on the bathroom floor.
Primary feathers are spread and the narrow eighth primary is visible.
They can make tools and have feathers and they're also dinosaurs.
"The use of feathers is no coincidence," read Trincone's show notes.
But yes, I wish they would put feathers on the dinosaurs.
Zombies, chicken feathers, Delorean trips for Back to the Future Day.
Hope, goes the Emily Dickinson poem, is the thing with feathers.
On Thursday, that ruffled the feathers of some of those dissidents.
He's certainly one bird whose feathers you wouldn't want to ruffle.
Parrots were kept as pets and their feathers were highly prized.
I think when I came in, I definitely ruffled some feathers.
New Taylor is here, and she's okay ruffling a few feathers.
"Jianianhualong ​is not the oldest fossil with asymmetrical feathers," said Pittman.
Look at the feathers on this Cretaceous bird preserved in amber!
"I'm not afraid to ruffle feathers at all," Iguodala told me.
Feathers remain on the field for a moderate length of time.
Serena Williams has quite the number of feathers in her cap.
And if Trump ruffles feathers, Romney can tidy up the mess.
But the ruffling of feathers makes it harder to move forward.
But in doing so, he's rustled some feathers among congressional Republicans.
The plane's feathers are a critical component of its reentry system.
They don't flap their wings, they don't have feathers or muscles.
" To me it simply says, "Peacock feathers on top the head.
We are similar and people with the same feathers flock together.
This is the sort of Bachelorette antic that might ruffle feathers.
In which case, let's go for "Without Feathers," by Woody Allen.
Think of baby florals and tweeds and jacquards; lace and feathers.
Seven hours later, the feathers were back in their original spots.
And there are a few egret and heron feathers as well.
"I spend my time in dialogue with my feathers," he said.
It was all over his feathers, preventing him from flying properly.
The comedians were shifted to a temporary table, which ruffled feathers.
He has a Cockney accent—"fevvers" for "feathers," and the like.
I miss my friends but don't want to ruffle any feathers.
But these are primitive feathers, and most are a foot long.
Some pictures are just blurry feathers pressed against the camera lens.
How could she not have realized they would ruffle some feathers?
If the archeopteryx emoji gets to have feathers, raptors do too.
Bell opens with a bold statement that could ruffle some feathers.
So far, The Town Hall Affair has avoided ruffling any feathers.
Even Grande's move into more adult subject matter hasn't ruffled feathers.
She drew an owl, complete with ruffled feathers and alert eyes.
My stylist favored feathers, metallics and lacy fabrics mixed with leather.
Down clusters used in pillows actually don't look much like feathers.
" Winfield Scott (lost to Franklin Pierce) was "Old Fuss and Feathers.
As any child can tell you, dinosaurs, not birds, invented feathers.
The Milk Bowl of Feathers book is accessible, delightful, and inexpensive.
Why he thinks no one went to see "The Four Feathers."
They have mostly brown feathers, and three toes on each foot.
When chemically stripped of these pigments, the feathers turned grayish-white.
We used to make them out of newspapers and chicken feathers.
But the upside — seeming inclusive — outweighs the risk of ruffling feathers.
Feathers, pearls and lace conjure a vision of party girls past.
Neanderthals could use feathers and bird claws as ornaments, archaeologists found.
He moves in front of the mirror and his feathers shake.
And there were also a number of feathers on its legs.
On the bird's back, above the tail feathers, are the oysters.
Count six feathers in from the right of the tail's underside.
Don't fret: Birds evolved to molt and grow new feathers regularly.
Feathers flap and bits of food are flicked out of cages.
It's similar to modern bird feathers that lice have munched on.
Wearing feathers, eating seals — maybe none of this sounds particularly impressive.
Sheer silvery tulle was covered in myths and finished in feathers.
American flags protruded from their caps like feathers from a fedora.
The tribesmen wear loincloths, and their heads are adorned with feathers.
She keeps the objects in labeled compartments, like teeth and feathers.
"Finding and collecting feathers that have fallen from birds in nature sounds nice – but it isn't a viable business model to supply designers with the volume of feathers they demand," PETA's Yvonne Taylor told the Guardian.
Ostrich feathers were shipped in from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Madagascar, and dyed black, green, lilac, rose, sky blue, and yellow; heron feathers were brought from Germany and Turkey to adorn the Knights of the Holy Spirit.
Coming from the Jabra Elite 65t, the Galaxy Buds feel like feathers.
Tiny pigment-related structures indicated these feathers were ginger-brown in color.
She added feathers to her hair and glitter cannons to her concerts.
Hand drums hang on poles, and sacred eagle feathers dangle from rafters.
Then came the great discoveries of actual feathers on dinosaurs in China.
I'm sure this will ruffle a lot of feathers, but fuck it.
After that is when they start to lose the fluffy down feathers.
He selected each color based on the shade of the chicken's feathers.
That would be plenty exciting, but there's more: this dinosaur had feathers.
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium have ruffled some feathers.
The animal's feathers appear to have been darkish brown on the top.
That Jokowi appointed her, given the feathers she has ruffled, is heartening.
Gaetz is unconcerned, even if he's ruffled some feathers along the way.
No Rhea didn't forget to put feathers on, this is her look.
Senior staff have been sacked, jobs cut and merged, many feathers ruffled.
He was a gentle soul who didn't want to ruffle any feathers.
Feathers are replacing scales more and more often in our dinosaur drawings.
Naturally, this has ruffled a few feathers among British e-cigarette enthusiasts.
The West Wing reversals are clearly ruffling some feathers in the base.
Then I added the run on and the ruffle of the feathers.
Coral, starfish, fur, ivory, hide, feathers, teeth and eggs are all contributors.
There, he bathed her, blow-dried her feathers and named her Lucky.
They do not have flashy feathers, make melodic sounds, or poison you.
They represent the status quo, don't ruffle feathers, don't do anything bold.
A pouf of feathers jutted from its head like a tiny bouquet.
Little black dresses are slimming — and little black feathers scam the eye.
"If it had been feathers," she said, "you could have counted them."
Discarded feathers, organs, feet and heads piled up as the campers worked.
The Feathers Bra is unusual in its comfort, wearability, and universal appeal.
Meanwhile, the colorful feathers of heritage turkeys tend to leave such spots.
A pound of bricks weighs the same as a pound of feathers.
Peacocks vibrate their tail feathers in two distinct patterns; they twerk, essentially.
It's widely accepted that many dinosaurs had feathers and bird-like features.
Late in Grief is the Thing with Feathers, one of the Boys
If the T. rex did lose its feathers, though, that's another story.
Check out those giant flocks of feathers flanking both of her arms.
Now scientists think that theropods like T. rex probably even had feathers.
It ruffles feathers, to be sure, but that's how these things work.
Burners, as they're known, wear everything from feathers and wigs to bikinis.
These pillows have 32 ounces of down and feathers for medium support.
A day or so later, another envelope arrived, stuffed with more feathers.
The red everywhere was only her feathers, though; there was no blood.
The chase ended in a ball of feathers a little farther off.
Probably not, given that most cinematic T. rexes still don't have feathers.
His feathers are tropical green, roughly the color of an unripe mango.
A recent study in Palaeontology takes a close look at its feathers.
"She talked about how he drew feathers really well," Deeds Phillips says.
Longer feathers sprouted from its legs, arms, and tail, helping it glide.
Its slogan — "Tough on grease, yet gentle on feathers" — struck a chord.
To perform "Empire," Shakira added a skirt adorned with feathers and crystals.
But they may delay getting their adult feathers for a long time.
Dr. Dakin, a biologist, had been studying the color of peacock feathers.
The crest was three ostrich feathers divided into red and white halves.
Some were decked with Swarovski crystals or a mohawk of peacock feathers.
To make those songs, the male club-wing needs unusual wing feathers.
The two feathers in amber are from different dinosaurs, the researchers said.
Eventually, the scales on the top of the feet evolved into feathers.
"I just wanted to lift his feathers up a bit," she said.
But last month, researchers announced the discovery of feathers trapped in amber.
For example, young rexes were covered in feathers for warmth and camouflage.
Though the dots mark the tips of starlings' new feathers all winter, they wear off as spring fades into summer, leaving the birds with a very different plumage without the need to grow a new set of feathers.
But if true, it would push back the origins of feathers by about 70 million years, and also be the first time that feathers have been identified on an animal that was neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
From there, as well as posting a tweet advertising the masks website, whoever was in control of Feathers' account sent direct messages to a high number of his followers with a link to the site as well, Feathers said.
Rosettes of flowers made from multicolored feathers gave necklines and pockets a vaguely ceremonial air; harnesses were bejeweled; stiff feathers stood at attention on shoulders; and party dresses came in glinting steel or full-skirted satin, layered like doublets.
Many of the dead birds were molting, meaning they were regrowing their feathers.
Early feathers were very simple and apparently grown for warmth or for signaling.
Then that branched, and branched again to eventually create complex feathers with barbules.
Visually, Sealed Ahamkara Grasps are a step up from the Claws' BDSM feathers.
The actor wore a dramatic cape adorned with feathers designed by Christian Siriano.
Everything you can imagine is on those boots from woven embroidery to feathers.
Its discovery is offering new insights into the evolution of feathers and flight.
Tribes members come wearing florid regalia, bird feathers, and tufts of caribou fur.
Thin feathers of clouds float high above, providing little shelter from the sun.
But these feathers weren't located on its wings—they were on its tail.
In this case, the feathers absorb 99.95% of light shined directly at them.
It hasn't been very long since Duterte's last "joke" ruffled feathers overseas, either.
It's a move that no doubt ruffled plenty of feathers, but it worked.
Donald Trump seemed to ruffle quite a few feathers at the G7 Summit.
She bought a parakeet with yellow feathers thinking it would lighten the mood.
After they died, the animals were boiled in water to loosen their feathers.
That's Feathers, but it's still worth a visit if you have the cash.
Now, the chicken tax could ruffle the feathers of GM's pickup-truck profitability.
Grenell, who took office just last month, has ruffled feathers in Germany before.
They are known for fiercely guarding their independence and, at times, ruffling feathers.
"They're from a goose, but no goose has feathers like this," he said.
If you're an unknown comic these are fairly big feathers in your cap.
It takes more than a villainous monologue to ruffle the Emerald Archer's feathers.
Tired of smoothing your ruffled feathers in my presence because of your fear.
Feathers, sequins, and, oh my God, is that a Canadian tuxedo, Jack Antonoff?
Some birds aren't meant to be caged — their feathers are just too bright.
Biologists from Berkeley published a paper in Science explaining how chickens grow feathers.
Rihanna looked stunning in feathers at Crop Over Carnival in Barbados on Monday.
Her handbag is also unique, as it's made from real silk and feathers.
There are zero birds that big from Hell Creek with feathers this primitive.
The dinosaur feathers are crazy good, but the burrow makes your head reel.
Honest, productive conversation that touches on race or cultural stereotypes will ruffle feathers.
Tufts of feathers adorn the T. rex's head and run down its spine.
But the YIMBY approach has ruffled feathers among long-time affordable housing advocates.
These treats are then decorated with icing, multi-colored foil and sometimes feathers.
The invitations had instructed guests to bring flowers, chimes, feathers, incense and joy.
But very gently, and possibly with all the tar and feathers behind CWs.
Met Gala: There were color, feathers, a striptease and a few severed heads.
Eventually I suggested DOWN FEATHERS as the revealer, which was the one accepted.
It was a bigger, quail-like bird with speckled brown and gray feathers.
Met Gala: There were colors, feathers, a striptease and a few severed heads.
She walked upstairs to find a room covered in blood and turkey feathers.
However, why dinosaurs first evolved feathers is still a big topic of discussion.
"Feathers could have then later been co-opted for sexual display or flying."
"I don't think we know yet how it used its feathers," Poust said.
His recent attack on breakfast has also ruffled some feathers ... including Mark Wahlberg's.
Dr. Kane noticed that the feathers "were resonating like cantilevers" during the rattling.
His colorful and exuberant designs include beads, feathers, lace and even semiprecious stones.
The clothing and hats were an explosion of color, feathers, flowers, and sequins.
The 13-year-old said he saw feathers coming out of her jacket.
As he grows more aroused, the crest feathers on his head become erect.
I burned incense, gathered feathers, pinched countless dough babies from flour and salt.
But it is "ruffling more than a few feathers" in the tech industry.
Instead of feathers or cotton, it's cushioned with stacks of 100 dollar bills.
A piece of Burmese amber yielded up a dinosaur's tail, complete with feathers.
Or in this case, dust from duck or goose feathers found in bedding.
The feathers are then cleaned and stuffed into bedding, down jackets and more.
They saw that the top of the foot was coated in fuzzy feathers.
We mixed metaphors and wrote of rankled feathers when we meant ruffled ones.
One had its wing extended, and the other was carefully nuzzling its feathers.
Back on the prairie, the wind picked up and ruffled the gyrfalcon's feathers.
The authors said the feathers belonged to a type of non-flying dinosaur.
With slow, quick-to-fade reactions, phlegmatics don't ruffle feathers with their intensity.
This ruffled the feathers of Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who rebuked the proposal.
Lizard scales and feathers seem like they're a long way from human hair.
Now, I understand that a large percentage of the public would probably find them weird if they did have feathers, and I can only imagine that's one of the reasons that the writers and producers haven't put feathers on the dinosaurs.
The feathers on its tail exhibited a leaf-like arrangement, similar to another early long-tailed bird-like creature, Archaeopteryx (this creature also had asymmetric feathers, and lived 150 million years ago, but it's not a true ancestor of birds).
Described as "polarizing" throughout the season, Angelina ruffled more feathers in the final days.
And instead of filling their pots with feathers and stones, the friars used sweets.
His images show the feathers magnified up to 500 times what you would see.
The opera tracks along lines of currency — money, love, sex, or feathers — and manipulation.
Elizabeth Warren's pledge to break up big tech companies has understandably ruffled some feathers.
The large birds could have provided early humans with meat, bones, feathers and eggshells.
Makeup artist Stella Sironen first ruffled some feathers by posting the look on Instagram.
Seen under a microscope, the feathers suggest the creature was chestnut brown and white.
By the way, beta carotene is also the reason why flamingo feathers are pink.
But it looks like Trump's now making moves to smooth over any ruffled feathers.
But the fact that barbules were present on such primitive feathers challenges that theory.
Kristin Cavallari has ruffled some feathers over a comment made about her pet chicken.
The shark had just puked a bunch of 8- to 9-inch-long feathers.
He came in the shop with feathers in his hat, wearing a black turtleneck.
These cyanotypes involved feathers, ferns, and flowering plants, arranged for art instead of science.
Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.
Researchers have found traces of ancient birds in amber before, but only single feathers.
Things that bothered me before I started taking Zoloft barely ruffled my feathers now.
Remember, birds can regrow their feathers, but planes can't make their own replacement parts.
The results, from the colour of dinosaurian feathers to soft tissue discoveries, are incredible.
The researchers also had to account for the effect of all those insulating feathers.
If a target is struck by several feathers at once, they'll be briefly rooted.
Did the Tyrannosaurus rex have feathers, as some scientists have wondered in recent years?
A tiny burst of feathers is included on the head of the serpent labret.
After powdering and decorating your wig with bows, blossoms, feathers, sailboats, sail, flags, etc.
Importantly, C. juji also featured asymmetrical feathers, which modern birds use to control flight.
The embellished "C" and "D" in blue intertwine beneath the Prince of Wales' feathers.
These are the sweets that have been adorned what Kalabasa's bakers call chocolate feathers.
We'll see if he ruffled enough feathers to keep it from spreading any further.
Entropy increases from the cork to the feathers, aiming an emergent arrow of time.
You love to wear them, and hate to clean up the feathers left behind.
The coop stood empty now, just a few downy feathers blowing in the wind.
Together, they exercise their birds, clip their feathers and give them delicate sponge baths.
At NBCU, there were samba dancers wearing lots of feathers but not much else.
But former officials say the FBI's moves are clearly ruffling feathers within the administration.
Mexico is not the only Latin American country where Trump has ruffled some feathers.
Feathers, for example, likely evolved for insulation and only later became handy for flight.
I always wondered what was in some of them—maybe a few dodo feathers.
Some of the feathers were silky to the touch; others were stiff and lustrous.
It was black fox fur embedded with a glossy ridge of blue-black feathers.
"That's bull feathers," he wrote in a blog published on his Cain TV website.
The city offers some attractive ingredients: acorns, wild grapevines, beer caps, feathers, subway soot.
Low-pathogenic bird flu can cause coughing, ruffled feathers and other symptoms in poultry.
Like most products with a cult following, the Natori Feathers is rarely on sale.
Only feathers from the left wings of geese are used in the tournament shuttles.
Watson shouldn't let the obtuse ramblings of a tabloid writer ruffle her feathers, anyhow.
It's not the feathers keeping you warm, it's the air they trap (the fluffiness).
Despite their appearance in "Jurassic Park," scientists believe Velociraptors were actually covered in feathers.
There will be feathers, sequins, and hundreds of mini bottles of Champagne popped simultaneously.
Mr. President, these are not panaceas and will certainly ruffle the feathers of many.
This hummingbird-like species sports bright red feathers, black wings and a curved beak.
Closeup of tar and feathers on vandalized Jefferson Davis Confederate monument east of Phoenix.
Even a Prince tantrum is beautiful and mysterious, with purple feathers and white roses.
I brushed the feathers from my hair, adjusted my pillow, and returned to sleep.
They think it would have had feathers though none were preserved in the amber.
With its fuzzy feather coat, it revolutionized paleontology, suggesting that many dinosaurs had feathers.
" He said that the lightweight plastic walls of the structure were "reminiscent of feathers.
Cardi B isn't ruffling feathers at Paris fashion shows ... she's just flaunting 'em now.
Instead of a letter inside, she found the feathers of an Australian white ibis.
Bird feathers, like human hair and nails, are made of a protein called keratin.
It is the same milieu that she comes from, and she expects ruffled feathers.
It may ruffle feathers, but diversity means there's a different way of doing things.
"I'm like that bird that feathers its nest with shiny things," Ms. Qasimi said.
You are turning its body into something beautiful: blood and feathers and hollow bones.
Among paleontologists, it was a long-running assumption that the winged creatures lacked feathers.
It had long feathers on its four wings, and its appendages ended in claws.
But what explains the development of broad, flat feathers like those found on Anchiornis?
They aren't much like the feathers on today's birds, the dinosaurs' modern-day descendants.
It is also the way he did what he did that ruffled many feathers.
She collects feathers and stones because of the energy they carry, Ms. Antón said.
Beneath his beady black eyes, fringed orange feathers splay across his dark purple chest.
The Parker mission is far from the wax and feathers of Icarus's solar hubris.
The chicken she tries to feed him turns out to be nothing but feathers.
One was covered in a garden of blooms, the petals made from tinted feathers.
Girls with feathers in their hair and boys with beards and pearls dance wildly.
At Birdy Base Camp, young visitors can investigate nests, eggs, feathers and other objects.
"You can see that they're trying not to ruffle any feathers," Dr. Kavlock said.
Two suspended arrangements of feathers evoke church vaults, but also swarming birds or locusts.
Have you ever noticed a bird puffing out its feathers on a chilly day?
But the way Amazon is pursuing its protest has already ruffled a few feathers.
"Tree sap can also get stuck to feathers, which can cause distress," said May.
The patient's wife must not use eggs in cooking, otherwise he will grow feathers.
The fall 2017 collection played with oversize shapes, towering headdresses and bundles of feathers.
In 2019, it just looks like the company is scared of ruffling any feathers.
For the finishing touch, mallard ducks use their own feathers to cover the eggs.
Germany — whose feathers seem the most ruffled at the moment — only pays 1.2 percent.
He would put special feathers that he collected over many years into the hats.
The devices are typically attached to tail feathers, though some require invasive implantation surgery.
Feathers Wise is an extremely interesting choice in the role of the prophet Iokanaan.
It's like if you opened a pillow up and spread the feathers, they're gone.
If you show me a picture of an animal that's supposed to have hair or feathers without hair or feathers, I'll show you what I look like when I scream as loud as I can and throw a computer across the room.
There's a fun video that shows the ma- chine punching the feathers into its skin.
"She had to do a good job of smoothing over some ruffled feathers," Safran said.
Plus, the Academy ruffled feathers in January with rumours of abandoning a longtime presenting tradition.
Many of the filaments, under the microscope, showed branching like in feathers but not hair.
An Indonesian minister's remarks about the LGBT community is ruffling feathers in the Muslim country.
But rather than smoothing feathers, Democrats left the meeting with fresh criticism of the administration.
"It exploded, feathers and everything, just 'poof," said the batter at the time, Calvin Murray.
For starters, the Rooster's energy is almost guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers (pun intended).
He was basically looking for a mate, that's why he shouts and displays his feathers.
X.E. is advertising her wares — "feathers glisten like diamonds" — to a decadent, almost grotesque clientele.
Gradually, some dinosaurs began growing more complex feathers and began to learn how to fly.
Rumor has it that there are even feathers from the Most Dangerous Bird: ya mans.
The tail consisted of eight vertebrae, soft tissue and feathers exquisitely preserved in three dimensions.
Considering its body plan and feathers, J. perplexus probably flew slightly differently than birds today.
Yet mass retailers sell the feathers as if they have no spiritual significance, she said.
The birds, she said, have been stressed and started to pull out their own feathers.
A short tail poked out from their rears, fanning out in a spray of feathers.
"Another big, big trend is exaggerated volume, ruffles and feathers, ruffly feathery things," Saboura said.
They can get that poop everywhere: on their fur, feathers, bedding, food, you name it.
Bond prices have reacted with minor move upwards but it hasn't ruffled too many feathers.
The feathers of many people can come together to create the headdress of one leader.
Conservationists put penguins in sweaters so they wouldn't eat the oil off of their feathers.
The Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas is celebrating a little bundle of feathers and joy.
She owned so many pretty corsages and dresses, set with colorful feathers and tarot cards.
Last year, Solange's look was focused again on jewels; however, peacock feathers were another feature.
Her dress was adorned with plenty of feathers and several sequins for a shimmering effect.
Seen from above, the black feathers blend in with the darkness of the sea bottom.
I just googled what owls look like without feathers and I am severely shook pic.twitter.
As the feathers descend, a number turn black or gray, or the pink washes out.
It was a collection filled with textures — sheepskins, furs, feathers, silks, plastics — and colors aplenty.
All other feathers now come from farmed animals—goose, duck, chicken, turkey, pheasant, and ostrich.
But Ocasio-Cortez has also ruffled some feathers in the Democratic Party with her actions.
"He made a Gaultier fur using recolored chicken feathers disguised as leopard," Mr. Vermeulen said.
"It was a marquetry of 25 colors of feathers from four different species," he recalled.
You might notice a slight smell of feathers at first, but this will quickly dissipate.
They did not discover feather fossils, but suspect Moros had feathers, as did many dinosaurs.
She wore a neon-pink minidress that was covered in feathers and designed by Attico.
Underneath the feathers, dinos could have had brightly colored scales, like many modern-day lizards.
The feathers are then trimmed to size and matched by color, flexibility and other factors.
The hen picked herself up, shook her feathers indignantly and walked back to the barn.
To impress a mate, the snowy egret grows long, flowing, virginal white feathers each spring.
Musgraves wore a $22,000 long-sleeved Valentino gown covered in yellow feathers and multicolored sparkles.
The birds carry the bacteria on their feathers, on their feet and in their droppings.
A 4-year-old T. rex struts its stuff, including an insulating layer of feathers.
Feathers kept dinos warm, but so does growing really big and doing more physical activity.
The orange-breasted green-pigeon—endemic to India—also has extraordinary hues on its feathers.
Here the dead birds are scalded with hot water before mechanical fingers pluck their feathers.
The video opens on a couple bedecked in feathers, about to go their separate ways.
Women usually paint their faces, wear elegant dresses and hats adorned with feathers and flowers.
A Mylar quilted balloon skirt was belted over a velvet minidress finished in oily feathers.
For such an avowedly political filmmaker as Lee, success necessarily means ruffling some public feathers.
Tattoos depicting skates, roses and eagle feathers peek out from behind their elbowpads and kneepads.
His plume was a smattering of tan feathers; yellow eyes sat high in his head.
It wasn't feathers, floats and celebrities, but an act of "desperate courage," one writer recalls.
Apparently, hummingbirds use their beaks as weapons to pull feathers, stab, and push their competition.
I grew my hair long, tied it in braids, adorned it with beads and feathers.
Breeding took place, loudly and with much flying of feathers, throughout the opening night reception.
He does ruffle feathers, but seems to end up being right about most important things.
Vaporetto tickets, pigeon feathers and candy wrappers floated in stagnant pools around St. Mark's Basilica.
Dreamcatchers hung from the ceiling inside, the feathers swaying as Ms. Miel opened the door.
It's ruffling more than feathers in a town where the fox is the unofficial mascot.
"You have to ruffle some feathers," said Ron Jackson, a 42-year-old supermarket worker.
What we get, instead, is feathers, fur, cowrie shells, leaves and lots of body paint.
Some female finches use white feathers to line their nest, perhaps to camouflage white eggs.
Its entire body was covered with feathers, complete with two plumes at the tail's end.
BOCE already trades a variety of textile products including cotton, cashmere, goose feathers and eiderdown.
Lamb, who is Catholic, was able to delicately navigate that issue without ruffling any feathers.
Ms. Rice had ruffled feathers by modernizing a space that Globe hard-liners defend fiercely.
Traditionally, warmth and winter have overlapped when down, fur, leather, wool, and feathers were involved.
However, the way Amazon has pursued this claim has already apparently ruffled a few feathers.
The resemblance doesn't stop at the feathers, said Gao Hongqiang, the park's head bird feeder.
A page turn reveals that his feathers are snowflakes, falling on a twilit city block.
They sewed all year long, making suits — elaborate outfits covered in feathers, beads, and rhinestones.
A few feathers were ruffled, but this pet parrot was spared from the historic storm.
Handbags and shoes were carefully coordinated with head pieces decorated with velvet, feathers or netting.
Closer inspection revealed that there were bristlelike feathers protruding from the tops of the toes.
She smiles with her lips closed, one cheek dimpled, feathers pluming from a crown braid.
Almost every model wore a beanie cap with feathers sticking up, like refugees from Neverland.
Van Hove had already shown us executions, orgies, adult bodies smeared in blood and feathers.
Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief and the host of the event, wore pink feathers.
So, it's no surprise that Porchlight's casting of white actor Jack DeCesare ruffled some feathers.
The resulting songs aren't topheavy, exactly, but they are as unwieldy as stacks of feathers.
Working like the large quill feathers found on the end of a bird's wings, these artificial feathers can be quickly swept back mid-flight, individually, or separately, allowing the drone to not only make sharp turns, but also adapt to changing wind and weather conditions.
Exaggerated lacy vinyl skirts bloomed around bony hips, and oily, iridescent feathers bristled at the neck.
The thumbs represent the heads of the two eagles, while the fingers look like the feathers.
Jason has been ruffling feathers since returning to Rosewood to serve as Alison's court-ordered caretaker.
Image: Zixiao YangTo be clear, these feathers aren't like the ones we see on today's birds.
Mr Schäfer subsequently ruffled feathers when he met a cultural attaché from Iran at the museum.
But despite spending years at the State Department, Bolton has at times ruffled feathers in Washington.
Pigeons (actually, "rock doves") are mostly monogamous, with gorgeous iridescent feathers and an incredible navigation instinct.
It's not surprising that Megyn Kelly would ruffle a few feathers in her transition to NBC.
The Oscar winner recently ruffled feathers when she joked about sitting on sacred rocks in Hawaii.
Male cockatoos extend their head crest feathers when they're surprised by loud sounds (like guitar twangs).
Are you frustrated with Hollywood's unwillingness to show dinosaurs as they really were—feathers and all?
Broil the feathers and stuff with sage-brush, old clothes, almost anything you can dig up.
And as Instagram commenters have shown, it's ruffling feathers more than any wacky viral brow look.
Here's where Huckabee comes in, pulling no punches, not afraid to offend or ruffle some feathers.
Some chickens like to sneak behind his 'love radar' to peck at his long large feathers.
It was plump, with what appeared to be a tuft of white feathers at its breast.
His caretaker kept some files in a folder with a graphic design of feathers on it.
Air France-KLM ruffled feathers in France last year when it picked its first foreign CEO.
I mean, when you say ostrich jacket, just to be clear, we're not talking about feathers.
" She said Assange has been "wrongly accused" after "ruffling the feathers of people that are powerful.
On closer inspection, he noticed that the helpless birds had their flight and tail feathers removed.
Floats filled with revelers wearing colorful costumes add to a mix of beads, booze and feathers.
Your dresses could have been lovely with out that show title, feathers, and awkward spear teepees.
"His distinct white feathers could be seen around the zoo, providing an unexpected souvenir for visitors."
This revealed that eyespots have a slightly different structure than the other feathers in the tail.
Of significance, the tail feathers were asymmetrically vaned, meaning one side was wider than the other.
Do you like your porgs pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried, or straight up with feathers?
It must have ruffled Minaj's feathers — she sent out a disgruntled tweet about it months later.
It has black feathers on the bodice, which extend to wing-like protrusions from her shoulders.
The cover of the card is decorated with the prince's feathers (his emblem) and Camilla's cipher.
There are no external flaps, just holes on either side of the head covered by feathers.
Owls have these super fluffy feathers on their, uh, undercarriage that help them stay deadly silent.
IN HER first two months on the job Yuriko Koike, Tokyo's governor, has ruffled many feathers.
The "Work" singer is seen sporting colorful feathers, blue hair and a jewel encrusted two piece.
Patients with twitches were given caps with long feathers that would jerk wildly with every tremor.
There are also feathers and fish to collect, because that's how Ubisoft open world games roll.
Now, the club is a disaster, a trash fire stoked with the feathers of white swans.
Trump's policies and statements had ruffled the feathers of many world leaders since he took office.
The accident that occurred in 2014 was a result of the feathers being prematurely being unlocked.
What they saw: The birds' feathers were covered in the most soot between 1880 and 1929.
The star's intricate body artwork featured feathers made from skin that grow out of her chest.
Eschewing boring polyester, she designed a gown that incorporates feathers, sequins, and plenty of pink tulle.
This little coelurosaur had a tail covered in simple feathers just like we see in down.
"I don't know, peacocks can be pretty scary with all their feathers up," Heers pointed out.
Also spotted on the runway was an abundance of gothic black feathers à la Sansa Stark.
Mattis also touched upon the status of Taiwan, an issue bound to ruffle feathers in Beijing.
The researchers went on to test a broadbill wing and individual feathers in a wind tunnel.
The interlocking barbules of peacock feathers also have this unique structure—hence their many-hued iridescence.
While some seemingly worked with cotton swabs, other artists appear to have combed the birds' feathers.
"They're like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns," she said, using a Chinese idiom meaning extremely rare.
A stag runs and an owl ruffles his feathers as a singing man approaches—Tom Waits.
He was soon covered with feathers and dust, as if he'd spent the weekend at Cher's.
Dinosaurs -- "we should say extinct non-avian dinosaurs, because birds are dinosaurs too" -- also evolved feathers.
According to the brand's website, it was hand-embellished with white pearls, sequins, and ostrich feathers.
" In college, Sharro discovered Woody Allen when a friend gave him a copy of "Without Feathers.
Typically, the car initially pulls away on electric power before the gas engine smoothly feathers in.
Also, feathers are in, so Tweety should ride that wave hard — fashion is fickle, after all.
We don't want to ruffle your feathers, but we bet he wakes up like that, too.
Bristling with quill-like proto-feathers, it looks like a roadrunner that mated with an anteater.
The minute detailing of the individual barbs of the bird's feathers took four months to complete.
Straw, feathers, matted tufts of yellowed wool, are strewn across the room like some barnyard massacre.
It will also question the involvement of the Kennedy family, which will definitely ruffle some feathers.
One can only wonder whether another bird with the same feathers will suffer a similar fate.
The tusk is likely just for sexual display, like a peacock's feathers or a lion's mane.

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