2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (311+ words) image: An illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. view more Credit: Credit: Andrey Atuchin “It’s such a beautiful, well-preserved feather, from such an unexpected source, and it’s exciting that it could help us answer this huge…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (482+ words) Fossils from a bird-like dinosaur in Montana give researchers a rare view of growth from embryo to adult. The bones also help address a long-running problem in dinosaur classification. David Varricchio of Montana State University and Heath Caldwell of North…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (529+ words) Sixty-six million years later, a dinosaur’s fossilized poop is rewriting evolutionary history. It is rare for paleontology to find feathers at all. Finding them inside the belly of a beast is a miracle of preservation. An apex predator ate a…...