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. The recently discovered ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

Scientists have found a Jurassic-age fossil in China that changes our understanding of bird evolution. The fossil, named Baminornis zhenghensis, suggests that birds developed sophisticated flight ...

early birds, and plant fossils. It is regarded as "one of the most important paleontological discoveries of the 20th century," according to China Daily. Discovered by researchers from the Nanjing ...

Before Baminornis, the oldest known short-tailed bird fossil was Confuciusornis from the Jehol Biota (the ecosystem of northeastern China between 133 and 120 million years ago), dating to about 125 ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

J. longchengi is only the fourth terrestrial species found in China. | Credit: NIGPAS Fossils of many other animals — including dinosaurs, birds, mammals and insects — have been found in the ...

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived 125 million years ago, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.

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. The recently ...