Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...

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

Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

Many sported bizarre features such as toothed beaks and long, bony tails. Vegavis, however, would have been ducklike in size and similar ecologically to aquatic bird species such as loons ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

While lots of animals have long tails, there are some with a tail measuring ... SA 2.0 – Original / License The ribbon-tailed astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) is a bird with a tail typically measuring three ...