A tour guide in the United Kingdom was confronted with something both rare and fantastical when he stumbled upon a ...

Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on some sea lilies and developed an […] ...

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 ...

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

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

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

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

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

For more than 40 years, an area of Cretaceous rock exposures southwest of Choteau off the Bellview Road has been the site of exciting fossil discoveries, including ones by paleontologists ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...