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

This discovery extends the timeline for the evolution of key bird features by millions of years. “Previously, the oldest ...

Discovery of Baminornis zhenghensis fossils change timeline of birds' emergence, say Chinese scientists - Anadolu Ajansı ...

CCTV Chinese scientists have discovered one of the world's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis in East China's ...

Groundbreaking discovery in East China's Fujian province reveals the oldest confirmed bird fossil from the Jurassic period.

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

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

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

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...