Several years ago, Brandon Silverman become obsessed with the lettering and typography on the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company in the late 19th and early ... The aim is to view ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once considered the earliest bird. However, its long tail and primitive ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The bird displays a unique combination of traits ...

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic period and rewriting the history of avian evolution. After a year of restoration and research, a joint team from the Institute of ...

Back in 2015, experts recovered the fossilized remains from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China.

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The bird displays a unique combination of traits ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known, state-run Xinhua news reported. This suggests that birds ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known, suggesting that birds might have originated earlier than ...

The fossils fill a spatiotemporal gap in the early evolutionary history of birds and provide the evidence yet that birds were diversified by the end of the Jurassic period. This study was ...