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“We humans may be naked apes,” he writes, but “we are also in many ways featherless crows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Wood storks have a distinctive scaly, featherless gray head and a bright white feathered body with long skinny legs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
In June and early July, the rookery would typically resemble a nursery overrun with featherless black-skinned newborns with pterodactyl features or weeks-old hatchlings with heart-shaped brown patches on their backs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
In February, the team published another amber discovery: a bird's foot topped with feathers—an expected but previously unseen evolutionary step for modern birds, which later evolved scaly, featherless feet.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2019
“As if they could help forgetting! Why, in a month or two—three at the most—they won’t even know what my name is—silly cuckoos! Silly, half-grown, featherless cuckoos! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
