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

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

You may not think of dinosaurs when you think of love and romance, but on Valentine's Day, the Museum of the Rockies is ...

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

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

“A short tail is widely regarded as aerodynamically beneficial, and the reduction of the tail constitutes the most dramatic change during the dinosaurs-bird transition,” says Min Wang at the ...

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

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