About 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period, a large proportion of species on Earth rapidly became extinct.

About 66 million years ago, a dinosaur—maybe a T. rex or a Nanotyrannus—ate a bird. The record of that meal, in the form of ...

Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass extinction ...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Scientists found a rare fossil feather, bird bones and fish scales inside dinosaur poop from Montana, revealing a prehistoric ...

Clues to why modern birds managed to survive without going extinct have been discovered in fossilized dinosaur feces, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...

Early mammals may have looked far less colourful than many animals alive today. A new study shows thatsix mammals from the ...

Learn how feathers in dinosaur poop from the Hell Creek Formation could help explain why some birds survived the mass ...

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the ...

A dinosaur ate a bird around 66 million years ago, and its dung preserved the best example of a feather ever found from the ...