Groups of rare bird species, such as black-necked cranes and bar-headed geese, took flight to forage under the morning sun in ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. [Photo/Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Chinese palaeontologists have found what could be the world’s oldest bird fossil ... stage of evolution has long been clouded by the rare and spatiotemporally limited fossil record,” the ...