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

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Although Archaeopteryx had feathered wings, it closely resembled non-avialan dinosaurs, ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now Antarctica during the late Cretaceous period.