During the course of her career, Shapiro searched for DNA-rich fossils in frigid permafrost ... no one was sure what type of ...

Since 1990, more than three times as many bird fossils dating from the Cretaceous have been discovered than were found in the previous two centuries. While most of the bird lineages that arose ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai ... Most of the time, when fossils are controversial among paleontologists, it's ...

The frozen continent was very different some 67 million years ago, but fossils reveal that Vegavis iaai looked remarkably like a modern duck. It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird ...

For years, scientists were uncertain about Vegavis’s place in the evolutionary tree due to the scarcity of modern bird fossils from before the mass extinction that occurred 66 million years ago.

World's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis Photo: CCTV Chinese scientists have discovered one of the world's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis in East China's Fujian ...

In their study, which was published in Nature journal on Thursday, the researchers named the bird species Baminornis zhenghensis. Its fossils display a unique combination of features including ...

It is known as the southernmost location globally where Avialae fossils from the late Jurassic Period are preserved. This combo photo shows an image of the fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis ...

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

"Baminornis is a landmark discovery, and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery of Archaeopteryx in the early 1860s," said Stephen L. Brusatte, a paleontologist ...