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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.