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Some lucky birds escaped dino doomsday

Feathers, wishbones and more were a dino thing before they were a bird thing

ancient bird

EARLY BIRDS  Birds diversified throughout the age of the dinosaurs, but only one lineage survived. 

Utako Kikutani

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

The asteroid strike (or was it the roiling volcanoes?) that triggered dino doomsday 66 million years ago also brought an avian apocalypse.