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 ...

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

Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on some sea lilies and developed an […] ...

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

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

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 ...

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

A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...