Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

Portuguese colchas, enslaved artisans in Mexico, and Aurangzeb’s ‘invisible’ muslins reveal a global saga. This Kolkata ...

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"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...

Doctors rarely see what kind of girdles their patients wear, which explains why it took so long to find out what was wrong with two Manhattan women who went to St. Vincent’s Hospital complaining ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

The discovery of a 6-inch (15 cm) fossil of a small bird, 150 million years old, reveals unexpected modern anatomical ...

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Anne Gildea follows up her phenomenally successful show, How To Get The Menopause & Enjoy It, with Further Adventures in ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...