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 ...

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

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

As detailed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the researchers claim the fossil to be the oldest known ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese scientists ...

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

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

Groundbreaking discovery in East China's Fujian province reveals the oldest confirmed bird fossil from the Jurassic period.