A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...

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 ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic period, around 145 million years ago. However, the early history of birds is ...

Two bird fossils dating back 149 million years to the Jurassic era have been unearthed in Fujian Province, southeast China. These fossils bridge a gap in our knowledge of early bird evolution.

A photograph and interpretive line drawing show the Baminornis zhenghensis fossil. Min Wang Researchers named the newly discovered Jurassic bird Baminornis zhenghensis. It was a contemporary of ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly ...

65 x 89.5 x 19 cm. (25.6 x 35.2 x 7.5 in.) ...

It features a short tail ending in a single bone, similar to modern birds. This structure indicates that key bird-like traits began developing in the Late Jurassic Period, nearly 20 million years ...

Chinese palaeontologists have found what could be the world’s oldest bird fossil, a “landmark” find that could shed light on one of the most important chapters in evolutionary history.