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.

Opening March 29, the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum teaches how our world continues to evolve. USA TODAY has an exclusive ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a rare fossil of a previously unknown species of venomous scorpion that lived around 125 ...

When a massive asteroid struck our planet about 66 million years ago, 75% of our planet's flora and fauna perished due to the impact. The cataclysmic event marked the end of the Cretaceous Period and ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...

Modern birds, in contrast, have much shorter tails. Until recently, however, this crucial characteristic was only known from early bird fossils dated from the Cretaceous, millions of years later. The ...

Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks on Monday in Beijing during a presentation on bird fossils found in ...