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. The recently discovered ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

A recent 'rediscovery' of a Cretaceous-period bird has stunned experts. The remains of the bird had long been at the Shandong Tianyu Museum, China, but had only recently been identified as a new ...

3D Reconstruction of Baminornis zhenghensis. Credit: Ren Wenyu In this study, the researchers named one of the two fossils Baminornis zhenghensis. This fossil displays a unique combination of features ...

Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...

(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 traits, ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

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Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ancient Argentina.

A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...