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

The discovery of a 6-inch (15 cm) fossil of a small bird, 150 million years old, reveals unexpected modern anatomical ...

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

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

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

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, and this suggests that birds ...

Until now, Archaeopteryx was the only unquestionable bird known from the Jurassic, which ended roughly 145 million years ago. "This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably ...