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 ...

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 ...

The four sets of impressions discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds included: Birds and invertebrates (approximately 50 million to 39 million years old): Two small bird tracks and beak marks were ...

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 ...