3+ hour, 36+ min ago  (103+ words) WBUR Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today are directly linked to the velociraptor, triceratops and T. rex. Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist, about…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (127+ words) WBUR 2025 was a year packed with scientific discovery, with stories as large as the galaxy and as small as the DNA from a 24-million-year-old rhinoceros tooth (albeit an extinct one). In between, there were triumphs, including advances in transplanting animal…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (96+ words) A wildlife photographer was following tracks of deer and vulture when he stumbled across thousands of dinosaur tracks spanning hundreds of meters. Thousands of dinosaur footprints from the Late Triassic period were found in the Italian Alps near where some…...