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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
Passing one ground nest, Slaton bends to watch as two tiny featherless gray and pink pelican chicks squirm, eyes still closed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
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
A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
