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

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...

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

The evolution of feathers with an asymmetrical shape, like those of Archaeopteryx, further enhanced the flight capabilities of early birds. After Archaeopteryx, the fossil record suggests that ...

The 19th-century discovery of Archaeopteryx, now known from about a dozen specimens, lent support to British naturalist Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and provided evidence that today ...

The fossil of B. zhenghensis, a bird from the late Middle Jurassic period, was unveiled by the Institute of Vertebrate ...

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 ...

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