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Feather found in dinosaur poop might explain how birds beat extinction

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?

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A Team of Paleontologists Discovers a Feather Trapped in the Excrement of a Dinosaur and a New Hypothesis Arises: "One of the Great Mysteries of Any Extinction Is Why some Animals Survive and Others Do not."

Fossilized feces date from 66 million years ago and would be from a young "Tyrannosaurus rex" or a "Nanotyrannus".The finding could determine one of the causes of the selectivity of mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.

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Feather found in dinosaur poop might explain how birds beat extinction

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?

16 hours ago·Seattle, United States

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Feathers Found in Fossilized Dinosaur Droppings.

(Dan Tri Newspaper) - Feathers found in dinosaur fossils provide more data about ancient birds and the possibility that some bird species survived the mass extinction event 66 million years ago.

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The Seattle Times broke the news in Seattle, United States 16 hours ago on Friday, September 18, 2026.

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Feather found in dinosaur poop might explain how birds beat extinction

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A Team of Paleontologists Discovers a Feather Trapped in the Excrement of a Dinosaur and a New Hypothesis Arises: "One of the Great Mysteries of Any Extinction Is Why some Animals Survive and Others Do not."

Feather found in dinosaur poop might explain how birds beat extinction

Feathers Found in Fossilized Dinosaur Droppings.

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A Team of Paleontologists Discovers a Feather Trapped in the Excrement of a Dinosaur and a New Hypothesis Arises: "One of the Great Mysteries of Any Extinction Is Why some Animals Survive and Others Do not."

Feathers Found in Fossilized Dinosaur Droppings.

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