Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

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

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

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

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

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