by Elio — Just when we thought we'd heard it all, along came a study on the bac­te­r­ial degra­da­tion of bird feath­ers. We ad­mit we hadn't pre­vi­ously spent much time con­tem­plat­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that feath­ers would be sus­cep­ti­ble to bac­te­r­ial degra­da­tion, just like any other ker­atin-con­tain­ing struc­ture. But to a bird...