A tour guide in the United Kingdom was confronted with something both rare and fantastical when he stumbled upon a ...
Scientists say a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica now represents the earliest known modern bird, shedding new light on the evolution of early avian species. The skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...
The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...
The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings.
Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...
Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.
A newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern ...
Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...
A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...