Every paleontologist's dream is to find the one fossil that proves even the Cretaceous period had a guy who ate something he absolutely should not have.
Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping
A 9.3-centimetre feather found inside a broken coprolite in Montana's Hell Creek Formation is the best-preserved ever recovered from dinosaur-age rock, pushing modern feather evolution back 10 million years. Micro-CT scans revealed water-repellent structure and spongy cores like those of modern pelicans, plus two leg-bone fragments and a fish bone suggesting a small diving bird was eaten by a larger predator that then excreted it. The find may help explain why only one bird lineage survived the asteroid.
Source: Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping — New Scientist
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