A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...
A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.K. has found possible evidence that bird flu vaccinations are driving ...
The fossil was unearthed in southeastern China and described in Science Advances. The research suggests that specimens first ...
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...
New Zealand’s fossil record has a reputation for producing birds that break the rules other continents follow, and a small, ...
A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...
A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...
Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...
Wrist evolution helped birds to conquer the air. Fossil data and analysis of a modern bird’s development reveal that this evolution preceded bird origins Xing Xu is at the Institute of Vertebrate ...