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

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds?

When you think of dinosaurs, images of giant, scaly reptiles like the Tyrannosaurus Rex probably come to mind. Movies, ...

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

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

Clues to why modern birds managed to survive without going extinct have been discovered in fossilized dinosaur feces, or coprolites, believed to have come from Tyrannosaurus rex ( Tyrannosaurus rex) ...

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

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 ...