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

During the course of her career, Shapiro searched for DNA-rich fossils in frigid permafrost ... no one was sure what type of bird the dodo was. “This was a genuine mystery,” Shapiro said.

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

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

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

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

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two bird fossils from Jurassic-era rocks in Fujian, China, dating back 149 million years, provide significant insights into early bird evolution. One fossil ...

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 ...