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

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Three dinosaur-themed bounce houses await and there’s a Jurassic Quest gift shop called the Dino Store, which sells ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

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

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

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