A Cataclysm and Its Feathered Survivors About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The devastation and climate upheaval it triggered are now counted among the chief drivers of ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

Poor insulation from primitive feathers may explain why some ancient birds went extinct after the asteroid impact ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before the creature was eaten by a theropod ...

Newswise — Birds evolved from dinosaurs. They share a common ancestor and physical traits — some dinosaurs even had feathers. But while these dinosaurs are thought to have had "fuzzy" or "downy" ...

A meal eaten by a dinosaur about 66 million years ago may have preserved a clue to one of paleontology’s biggest mysteries. Inside a small piece of fossilized dung from Montana, scientists discovered ...

A well-preserved feather discovered inside fossilised dinosaur faeces could help explain why ancestors of modern birds ...

A fossilized feather found inside dinosaur dung in Montana is described as the best-preserved Mesozoic feather and offers new ...