Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

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Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found. By Carl Zimmer Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...