From Rome to Mexico, here are 11 educational trips you can take during half term with direct flights from Manchester Airport.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?