The discovery of a 6-inch (15 cm) fossil of a small bird, 150 million years old, reveals unexpected modern anatomical ...

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

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

Fuzhou: A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese ...

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

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

CCTV Chinese scientists have discovered one of the world's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis in East China's ...

Its short tail ends in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature uniquely present in modern birds. This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period ...

A bird fossil, Baminornis zhenghensis, discovered in China's Fujian Province, is around 150 million years old. This finding suggests modern birds' origins date back earlier to the Late Jurassic, ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east ...

Its short tail ends in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature uniquely present in modern birds. This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period ...