Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has ...

A research team led by Professor WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ancient Argentina.

In 1861, as quarry workers in the Bavarian countryside split limestone into sheets for use in lithographic printing, they happened on a fossil skeleton. It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a ...

A recent 'rediscovery' of a Cretaceous-period bird has stunned experts. The remains of the bird had long been at the Shandong Tianyu Museum, China, but had only recently been identified as a new ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

Since 2021, paleontologist Wang Min and a team of researchers have spent their days excavating the fossil-rich deposits in Zhenghe County, in eastern China’s Fujian province. Layer by layer, they ...