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

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

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

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 ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

When the first Archaeopteryx fossil was unearthed in Germany in 1861, it was unlike anything known to science. At that time, bird-like creatures weren’t known to have existed so far back, so it was ...

He focuses not only on the fossils themselves, but on how they were discovered ... Along the way, Prothero discusses some of the most well-known extinct animals such as one of the first birds, ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...