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 ...

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have recently discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that overturns a long-held assumption about how the avian tail evolved, according to findings ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known long-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic period, filling a critical gap in scientists' ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic ...

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 ...

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 ...