Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...
The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...
A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their characteristic features 149 million years ago.
The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...
Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through ...
“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...
The fossil of B. zhenghensis, a bird from the late Middle Jurassic period, was unveiled by the Institute of Vertebrate ...
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...