Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some of ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck near what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and triggered a global ...

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 ...

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today ...

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

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

UW prof Anton Wroblewski studied more than 6,500 fossil fragments from the 66-million-year-old Ferris Formation in Carbon ...

In "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs," Riley Blake explores the moments leading up to the asteroid impact and the immediate aftermath. The bulk of the book, however, delves into how life on this planet ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Palaeontologists have discovered an extremely well-preserved feather from an extinct bird in fossilised dinosaur faeces. The ...

DERBY, Kan. (WJW) — Something came from the sky to take out a dinosaur in Kansas, the Derby Fire Department reported over the weekend. Saturday at about 8:30 p.m., fire crews were called to Field ...