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Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

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

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

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

The fossil of B. zhenghensis, a bird from the late Middle Jurassic period, was unveiled by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside ...

because many genealogical analyses instead identify them as non-bird ‘raptor’ dinosaurs in the Velociraptor zone of the evolutionary family tree 7. Nevertheless, they too were primitive ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once considered the earliest bird. However, its long tail and primitive features ...

Over the 140 million years that dinosaurs ruled the Earth, countless species came and went. The approximately 150 million-year-old dino bird, Archaeopteryx, has turned out to be one of the most ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...