Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP) in Beijing and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have revealed ...

Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern birds but not Deinonychus or Troodon, has ...

BEIJING Experts still do not know how a new strain of bird flu is infecting humans who have had no recent contact with fowl. The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government is facing in ...

THEY are there as night falls, and your car lights pick them up as you speed along the coast on a new and excitingly empty motorway: clusters of ragged people who have clambered up through the ...

Lei Jinyu (second from left) and three bird-watchers participate in a bird survey in Shennongjia, Hubei province, last year. CHEN LIANG/CHINA DAILY Bird-watching has emerged as a rapidly growing hobby ...