The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...
The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid ... The Chicxulub impactor smashed into ...
In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
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 Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...
FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 ...