Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

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

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals. Given the contentiousness of avian origins, however, the debate may have ...

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes called adeinonychosaurian dinosaur), which, despite their feathered wings, appear more ...

A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird ...

Until recently, however, this crucial characteristic was only known from early bird fossils dated from the Cretaceous, millions of years later. The discovery of Baminornis zhenghensis finally provides ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks on Monday in Beijing during a presentation on bird fossils found in ...

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 ...