Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

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

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

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

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

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Two years after the book hit shelves, the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Solnhofen, Germany, provided a link between dinosaurs and birds. The fossil combined dinosaur traits such as claws ...