Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but looked much more like modern birds due to its short tail Margherita Bassi ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

It had some advanced bird-like features in its shoulder and pelvic areas, but it also retained a more primitive, dinosaur-like hand. Most remarkably, Baminornis had a short tail ending in a ...

A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese scientists in east China's Fujian Province shedding a new light on the origin of ...

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

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird ...

Chinese palaeontologists have found what could be the world’s oldest bird fossil, a “landmark” find that could shed light on one of the most important chapters in evolutionary history.

These characteristics highlight the role of mosaic evolution in early bird development. Notably, Baminornis zhenghensis has a short tail ending in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature ...

This discovery extends the timeline for the evolution of key bird features by millions of years. “Previously, the oldest ...