FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might ...

BEIJING - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ...

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

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

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

Meet the Cryolophosaurus, a 21-foot predator of the Early Jurassic that looked like a T-Rex with feathers! The animal’s distinctive crest and feathery coat set it apart from other dinosaurs. Watch ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Dinosaurs were not exactly how we imagined them! These 8 groundbreaking fossil discoveries have completely changed what we ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

and stripes found on the arm bones of the new species suggest it was also feathered. The elongated hands were likely used to help the dinosaur feed, researchers said. The new species was found with ...

Skull of ancient bird Vegavis is 69 million years old Key traits define Vegavis as anatomically modern bird Antarctica had a ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...