66-Million-Year-Old Mystery Solved? Fossilized Bird Feather Reveals How ‘Modern’ Birds Likely Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
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The coprolith found in Montana in 2016 contains the remains of a cousin of the current birds. But also clues on how plumage has enabled some dinosaurs to survive the great extinction that occurred 66 million years ago.
66-Million-Year-Old Mystery Solved? Fossilized Bird Feather Reveals How ‘Modern’ Birds Likely Survived the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Analysis of an ancient bird feather encased in dinosaur feces may have solved the 66-million-year-old mystery of why modern birds exist.
A penalty preserved within the fossilized feces of a dinosaur can help explain why the ancestors of today's birds survived the mass extinction that eliminated most of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. The fossil, found in the formation of Hell Creek in Montana, United States, preserved in three dimensions the penalty of an aquatic bird that disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous. Bizarre? Thousands of birds form ‘cyclone' over church i…
A 66-million-year-old feather preserved in dinosaur droppings provides crucial information about why birds survived the mass extinction event. Read more here: Feather in Dinosaur Droppings Shows How Birds Survived - Archeofili.
A dinosaur’s poop may hold the secret to why birds survived the asteroid
Scientists have discovered an exceptionally preserved ancient bird feather inside fossilised dinosaur poop, providing fresh insights into feather evolution and the reasons some birds survived the mass extinction 66 million years ago.An illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. Credit: Andrey Atuchin.Around 66 million years ago, a dinosaur snacked on a bird. The record of that meal, found in a fossil coprolite – fossilised …
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