2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (257+ words) Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (505+ words) Paleontologists studying a fossil unearthed in southern Manitoba, Canada, have identified what they believe are two bite marks on the internal skeleton of the ancient giant cephalopod Enchoteuthis, offering rare evidence of predator-prey interactions in the Cretaceous seas that once…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) Archaeopteryx -- the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth -- may have hopped its way into the air, rather than launching with the single powerful leap modern birds use, according to a new biomechanical study published in the journal Developmental Biology....