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 ...

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 ...

Birds and dinosaurs share physical traits — some dinosaurs even had feathers. But while these dinosaurs are thought to have had "fuzzy" or "downy" feathers (shown in this illustration as the yellow ...

UW prof Anton Wroblewski studied more than 6,500 fossil fragments from the 66-million-year-old Ferris Formation in Carbon ...

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" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuna evolution after asteroid extinction unfolded slowly, as size and warm-blooded traits appeared millions of years apart.

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 ...

Reconstruction of the forest floor of the 74.6 million-year-old Dori’s Tuff flora, featuring hypothetical angiosperm–disperser interactions. The plants depicted, including the foliage, fruits, seeds ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists have long suspected that the same catastrophe also transformed life in the ...

Tunas did not become large, fast and warm-blooded simply because an asteroid cleared the oceans of competing predators. Their defining traits appeared separately over tens of millions of years, ...

Scientists say the findings help fill a major gap in the fossil record from Asia during the first 10 million years of the "Age of Mammals" A collection of ancient fossil teeth is helping scientists ...

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