Carla Dove and her team at the feather-identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, study snarge — that's the bird goo that is wiped off an aircraft after it ...

When animals are the prime suspects in a whodunit, who gets on the case? In capers where feathers or fur are the smoking guns, the role of CSI is often played by top natural history museums. They can ...

This article was written as a tribute to the life and work of Roxie Collie Laybourne, a world-renowned feather identification expert and pioneer in the field of forensic ornithology who worked at the ...