Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

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

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

What they found is remarkable: North America’s oldest-known dinosaur. The discovery brought scientific advances that revise the understanding of reptile evolution on the planet. It also broke a ...

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

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

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

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

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.