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

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

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

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

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

Despite what countless fictional adaptations may have implied, aquatic dinosaurs were not confirmed to be a reality until 2020. After analysis of a tail fossil uncovered in Morocco, researchers ...