When a large asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, not all the dinosaurs went extinct. Birds, feathered dinosaurs that have thrived since the Jurassic, survived—and some of these birds were ...

Everyone gets [into paleontology] seeing the big skeletons and things like that ... or even the claws on these bird tracks, we’re getting all of those details. Ligori: Can you describe a little ...

On the fourth try, the bird may have found something. Or perhaps it missed again and moved on. This glimpse into prehistory is possible thanks to two tiny fossil footprints and the dogged work of ...

Magnoavipes, which translates in Latin to big bird foot, is a genus classified based on fossilized footprints rather than bones. Helm told CBC News the track was likely left behind by either a ...

They identified two distinct morphologies among Trisauropodiscus footprints, the first of which is similar to certain non-bird dinosaur tracks, and the second of which is very similar in size and ...