Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird diversification in Jurassic Period. (photo credit: from video by Ren Wenyu) Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic period in a ...

Scientists have found a Jurassic-age fossil in China that changes our understanding of bird evolution. The fossil, named Baminornis zhenghensis, suggests that birds developed sophisticated flight ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The bird displays a unique combination of traits ...

The finding, he wrote, is among the first proof that birds lived alongside dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period. The finding helps scientists answer longstanding questions about when birds began ...

This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known. The bird displays a unique combination of traits ...