Researchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure that ...

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

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

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

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

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

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This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

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"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...