Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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

The fossil of B. zhenghensis, a bird from the late Middle Jurassic period, was unveiled by the Institute of Vertebrate ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

According to a truly field-altering fossilized bird found in China, birds already existed in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. The new discovery suggests that rather ...

A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese scientists in east China's Fujian Province shedding a new light on the origin of ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...