Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds?

Poor insulation from primitive feathers may explain why some ancient birds went extinct after the asteroid impact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. (CREDIT: Andrey Atuchin) A fossilized dinosaur dropping from ...

The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but ...

Birds and dinosaurs share physical traits — some dinosaurs even had feathers. But while these dinosaurs are thought to have had "fuzzy" or "downy" feathers (shown in this illustration as the yellow ...

BBC Earth, presented by Chris Packham, takes viewers back in time as the TV show host explores a buried clue behind the dinosaurs' extinction. For years, scientists have believed that an asteroid hit ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...