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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KUNMING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have identified a new species of Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur, named Xingxiulong yueorum, based on a fossilized skeleton discovered in the country's ...