The Jurassic World Rebirth looks to further transform the beloved franchise but also continues a trend that has remained ...
The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...
Scientists say a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica now represents the earliest known modern bird, shedding new light on the evolution of early avian species. The skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...
The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...
The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings.
Three dinosaur-themed bounce houses await and there’s a Jurassic Quest gift shop called the Dino Store, which sells ...
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 ...
Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.