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

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

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...