A 66-Million-Year-Old Feather Trapped in Dinosaur Poop Might Help Explain Why Some Birds Survived Mass Extinction
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A 66-Million-Year-Old Feather Trapped in Dinosaur Poop Might Help Explain Why Some Birds Survived Mass Extinction
Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before the creature was eaten by a theropod
By Katie Hunt, CNN A few tiny feathers trapped in fossilized excrement are helping scientists understand why some birds managed to overcome the massive extinction that killed the dinosaurs, while others failed.This discovery, dug up in Montana, corresponds to a bird that was devoured and subsequently excreted by a dinosaur.
Exceptional fossil preserved in predator feces in Montana offers glimpse of species that did not resist the impact of the asteroid
A fossilized feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived
NPR reports: Paleontology can be quite physical. In 2016, David DeMar was doing field work in the rocky badlands of Montana in what’s known as the Hell Creek Formation. “We all get down on our hands and knees,” he recalls. “And I start crawling up the hill and I noticed this little dark, round object on the ground. It was kind of odd.” DeMar, a lab manager at the Burke Museum in Seattle, picked up the cherry-sized fossil. “I start... Read More
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