A newly identified bird from the Late Jurassic is helping fill one of the biggest gaps in bird evolution. Named Zhengheornis buyu, the tiny species had a shortened tail without the fused tailbone seen ...

The species of Zhengheornis buyu, the smallest known long-tailed bird, and the skeletal reconstruction image of it Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Pale ...

Chinese researchers have recently discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that overturns a long-held assumption about how the ...

Researchers have described a new Jurassic bird species, Zhengheornis buyu, discovered in Fujian Province, China. The 148-million-year-old fossil shows a shortened tail with 15 vertebrae but no fused ...

Paleontologists in Japan have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 120-million-year-old flying dinosaur that’s seriously shaking up the bird family tree. Many of you have likely heard of ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes in evolutionary history. Working out how this massive transformation took ...

Researchers have recently discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that overturns a long-held assumption about how the avian tail evolved, according to findings published online in the journal Science ...