Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

This discovery extends the timeline for the evolution of key bird features by millions of years. “Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceou ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals. Given the contentiousness of avian origins, however, the debate may have a ...

"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...

While Archaeopteryx boasts a long and skinny tail resembling a raptor dinosaur like Velociraptor ... Unlike Archaeopteryx, Baminornis has a pygostyle - a bone plate formed by fused vertebrae at the ...