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

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

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

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

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million ...

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

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

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

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

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