Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

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

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks ...

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 ...

"If we take a step back, and reconsider the phylogenetic uncertainty of Archaeopteryx, we do not doubt that Baminornis ...

An asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Want to know what birdwatchers get for Christmas? Bird books, bird puzzles and bird games, of course. This year Mark and I exchanged Christmas presents in person with our sons and their families ...

It was an incredibly non-birdy outing where I only saw two birds! After hiking for almost an hour, I caught a brief glimpse of a single dark-eyed junco! Just as I was almost back to the parking ...

Prior to leaving on my trip, I scoured eBird reports of rare bird sightings in both Maricopa and Pima counties. I figured since I’d be driving right through both counties, if there were a really ...

However, the team says that it remains to be seen how well the data can be applied to dinosaurs, which are the birds' closest extinct relatives. "For example, crocodiles are the closest living ...