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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...