The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but ...

A remarkably preserved feather from a dinosaur’s last meal offers new clues to why some birds survived the K-Pg catastrophe.

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

A researcher crawling through Montana badlands in 2016 stumbled on a fossilized ball of dinosaur dung no bigger than a golf ...

About 66 million years ago, the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs paved the way for a spectacular expansion of new ...

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 ...

A bird feather found in fossilized dinosaur poop is the best-preserved feather ever recovered by paleontologists from ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

SANTIAGO, Sept 25 - Customs officials in Chile discovered and seized more than 200 fossils of ammonites in a shipping ...

A rumor is breaking that today, March 30, 2014, scientists at Liverpool's John Moores University announced they had cloned a dinosaur. The rumor has not been verified, and the photo of the "dino" is ...

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?