Groundbreaking discovery in East China's Fujian province reveals the oldest confirmed bird fossil from the Jurassic period. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] Groundbreaking discovery in East China's ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic period, around 145 million years ago. However, the early history of birds is ...

The fossils fill a spatiotemporal gap in the early evolutionary history of birds and provide the evidence yet that birds were diversified by the end of the Jurassic period. This study was ...

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes called adeinonychosaurian dinosaur), which, despite their feathered wings, appear more ...

A life reconstruction of the Jurassic Period bird Baminornis zhenghensis is seen in this illustration ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, a discovery ...

Chinese palaeontologists have found what could be the world’s oldest bird fossil, a “landmark” find that could shed light on one of the most important chapters in evolutionary history.

It features a short tail ending in a single bone, similar to modern birds. This structure indicates that key bird-like traits began developing in the Late Jurassic Period, nearly 20 million years ...

You'll also spot a 25-foot round horticultural clock featuring the signs of the zodiac and a collection of rare cycads, an unusual plant genus that has been around since the Jurassic period.