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 sparrow-sized bird's fossil was detected in Northeastern Asia, according to Earth.com. Its throat was filled with an alarmingly high number of stones, and its teeth were similar to those of the ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

But in the thousands of fossil birds in the same group as this little fossil, none have ever been found with gizzard stones. To help determine if the new little bird was simply the first of its kind ...

3D Reconstruction of Baminornis zhenghensis. Credit: Ren Wenyu In this study, the researchers named one of the two fossils Baminornis zhenghensis. This fossil displays a unique combination of features ...

Researchers have uncovered one of the most complete fossils of a bony-toothed bird that flew 62 million years ago over New Zealand. Researchers have uncovered one of the most complete fossils of a ...

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Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail feathers. These flashy feathers probably didn't help the ...

Navaornis hestiae (center) documents a previously unknown intermediate stage in the evolution of the central nervous system between the earliest birds (like Archaeopteryx on the left) and living birds ...