The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...
Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...
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 ...
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...
Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...