The fossil trove uncovered ancient birds, frogs, and extinctions long before humans arrived.

"Scientists have found these weird, broken-up clusters of bird bones at this site, and we didn't know what made them." ...

What has four wings and can’t fly? Jian changmaensis, a newly described species of feathered dinosaur recently discovered in ...

A recent study of the 121-million-year-old fossil shows the bird had tail feathers twice the length of its body.

A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of ...

All Nanantius eos fossils have been found in what geologists call marine deposits, which are rocks formed under the sea. Considering that one was even found in the stomach of a dolphin-like marine ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering blue eye-spots, birds of paradise do courtship dances that highlight their ...

Paleontologists have discovered Plumadraco bankoorum, a new species of bird from 121 million years ago in China. This "feather dragon" possessed two tail feathers twice the length of its body, likely ...

The Tokara leaf warbler lives on a small group of volcanic islands called the Tokara Islands. These islands lie between Japan’s main islands and Okinawa in the East China Sea. They are tiny; many are ...

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...

The bird, Plumadraco bankoorum, was a member of the enantiornithines, the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous ...