Starting August 19 the chicks will be available for viewing at the Penguin Encounter Room window. The babies have gray feathers now that will turn pink in a few months.

Feathers define birds. Other critters, like insects, fly; but no other critter wears feathers. And what amazing structures they are, these feathers. They allow birds to fly, perform mating ...

The color scheme for the feathers of a 36 million-year-old penguin was likely different from what it is today, based on an analysis of fossil feathers. Katie Browne / UT-Austin Sept. 30, 2010, 2: ...

When he crunched the numbers, he found a 99-percent chance that E. brachyptera had non-iridescent structural color, and no better than a 19-percent chance that the bird had gray feathers.

Flamingos dye their sun-faded feathers to stay pretty in pink. The DIY routine may help attract mates. Once the chicks are born, this preening stops ...