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

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

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

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...

This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 million years. This extinction was connected with massive volcanic eruptions caused by the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea. The ...

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

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

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

As little mud on the ground as if the waters had but wholly retired from the face of the earth, and it’s wonderful to meet a megalosaurus, ten metres long or so, gazing like an elephantine lizard on ...

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

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 ...