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

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

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.

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

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...

Scientists have found a Jurassic-age fossil in China that changes our understanding of bird evolution. The fossil, named Baminornis zhenghensis, suggests that birds developed sophisticated flight ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The bird displays a unique combination of traits ...

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 ...

Macroevolutionary studies previously speculated that the diversification of birds began in the Jurassic period, but this hypothesis lacked fossil evidence. One of the most significant differences ...