The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

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

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

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

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

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

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

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...