Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

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 ...

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks ...

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

In a nature reserve of southern China, a “horned” creature with over 250 “creamy white” eggs sat on the ground near a stream. Its eyes scanned the surrounding forest, but it wasn’t the only one ...

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 ...

Dismantling USAID would be a catastrophic national security mistake, leaving the global playing field of influence to ...

Gansu has wetlands covering nearly 1.19 million hectares. In recent years, creative and scientific conservation efforts have ...