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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

When the first Archaeopteryx fossils were discovered, shortly after the publication of Darwin’s most famous work, an amazed world hailed them as the transition point between reptiles and birds.

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, in east ...

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