Feather Preserved in 66 Million Year Old Dinosaur Dung Offers a New Clue to Bird Survival
Nature World News | 15.09.2026 22:00
A fossilized dinosaur dropping collected on a Montana hillside a decade ago has yielded what researchers describe as the best-preserved fossil feathers known from the Mesozoic era, and it is pointing paleontologists toward a possible answer to one of the field's long-standing questions: why a single lineage of birds survived the asteroid impact 66 million years ago while their close relatives did not.
