Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, ...

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years.

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes called adeinonychosaurian dinosaur), which, despite their feathered wings, appear more ...

The newly identified bird, called Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany in 1861, as the oldest-known birds. But Baminornis, about six inches (15 cm ...

However, the earliest evolutionary history of birds has long been obscured by a highly fragmentary fossil record, with Archaeopteryx being the only widely accepted Jurassic bird. Although ...

open image in gallery A life reconstruction of the Jurassic Period ... “Baminornis zhenghensis looks more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx,” Wang said, calling its discovery “a landmark ...

Although Archaeopteryx had feathered wings ... question of whether any unambiguous records of Jurassic birds exist. 3D Reconstruction of Baminornis zhenghensis. Credit: Ren Wenyu In this study ...

Based on the team’s reconstruction of the brain ... relative to the condition in a more archaic bird relative like Archaeopteryx, it is not as expanded as what we see in living birds.” ...

(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 modern ...