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

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

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

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

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

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

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

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

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

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

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