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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Fuzhou: A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese ...

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

Baminornis lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx but it has a short ... the tail constitutes the most dramatic change during the dinosaurs-bird transition,” says Min Wang at the Chinese ...

While Archaeopteryx boasts a long and skinny tail resembling a raptor dinosaur like Velociraptor, Baminornis has the shortened tail of a modern bird - an important aerodynamic innovation that ...