Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

Scientists in China discover 150 million-year-old fossilised bird, Baminornis zhenghensis, revealing new insights into bird ...

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 ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings.

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

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.

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