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

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago, just three ...

Magovern Regester is excited about the Archaeopteryx fossils that will be on display Saturday, Jan. 25, to Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Grenada Gallery, which is part of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

The newly identified bird, called Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany in 1861, as the oldest-known birds. But Baminornis, about six inches (15 cm ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but looked much more like modern birds due to its short tail Margherita Bassi ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern ...

In 1861, as quarry workers in the Bavarian countryside split limestone into sheets for use in lithographic printing, they happened on a fossil skeleton. It had feathers and wings, so it was ...

Baminornis lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx but it has a short tail like those of modern birds, pushing back the date of this evolutionary innovation by 20 million years. “A short tail is ...

A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their characteristic features 149 million years ago.