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 ...

The discovery happened in the form of a fossil femur placed in Crimea. Examinations revealed that the fossil belonged to a ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

The animal’s entire body was preserved in three dimensions, from the bird’s eyelids to the tips of its wings. Ergo: A feather fossil that is preserved down to the microscopic pigment ...

Its name reflects its origins: “Bamin” refers to the ancient name for Fujian, “-ornis” represents birds, and “zhenghensis” refers to Zhenghe County. In an interview with Sixth Tone, Wang takes us ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

One of the only fossil Pokémon to not evolve, the abominations against Arceus itself don’t count, is Aerodactyl. The iconic ...

So Oswald developed techniques to extract and sequence ancient DNA from Caribbean bird fossils. In an early proof of concept using the fossils of an extinct Caribbean cave rail, she and her ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

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 ...