Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

A quail-size fossil uncovered in China suggests birds evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

“This is a groundbreaking discovery. It overturns the previous situation that Archaeopteryx was the only bird found in the Jurassic Period,” Zhonghe Zhou, a paleontologist at the Chinese ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals. Given the contentiousness of avian origins, however, the debate may have ...

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(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 ...

Two bird fossils dating back 149 million years to the Jurassic era have been unearthed in Fujian Province, southeast China. These fossils bridge a gap in our knowledge of early bird evolution.

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...