A newly identified "chicken from hell" species suggests dinosaurs weren't sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit
Birdlike dinosaur Eoneophron infernalis (center) was about the size of an adult human.
Illustration by Zubin Erik Dutta ; "A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America" by Kyle L. Atkins-Weltman et al., in PLOS, Vol.19, No. 1. Published online January 24, 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-chicken-from-hell-discovered/