The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

The researchers used several methods to explore the position of Baminornis zhenghensis in the evolutionary tree of birds. The ...

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

Before we dive in about this particular piece of Thanksgiving history, a little biology refresher: The wishbone’s anatomical ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...