Archive for May 17th, 2020

WFS News: Cassowary gloss and a novel form of structural color in birds

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Cassowaries are big flightless birds with blue heads and dinosaur-looking feet; they look like emus that time forgot, and they’re objectively terrifying. They’re also, along with their ostrich and kiwi cousins, part of the bird family that split off from chickens, ducks, and songbirds 100 million years ago. […]