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

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

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

Scientists in China discover 150 million-year-old fossilised bird, Baminornis zhenghensis, revealing new insights into bird ...

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

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese scientists in east China’s Fujian Province shedding a new light on the origin of the ...

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

Africa is well positioned to improve its energy security, owing to its high solar radiation factor, highlights ...