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 ...

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

The fossil was unearthed in southeastern China and described in Science Advances. The research suggests that specimens first ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

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 ...

Scotland’s island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...