At some time during the Cretaceous era, a tick crawled onto a dinosaur feather, looking for its next meal. But somehow the tick and the feather both became encased in amber. Both specimens stayed like ...

Q: Our veterinarian pulled a feather that was bleeding on our parakeet’s wing. Is that something we could have done at home? A: Occasionally, a growing feather (called a blood feather) breaks along ...