The skeleton of a Jurassic dinosaur from China could also be the oldest known bird, scientists report. The fossil of Aurornis xui was found last year in a museum at the Fossil and Geology Park in ...

Evidence amassed over the last two decades, especially the numbers of feathered dinosaurs... From dinosaur to bird San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

A dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic period, found in China, gives scientists new understandings of how birds evolved, according to a Wednesday report from the journal Nature. The newly ...

A raven-sized creature that lived about 150 million years ago is back on its perch, a new study says. Widely pegged as the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx's status was called into question two ...

A new species of a bird-like dinosaur that lived 99 million years ago has been identified from a fossilized skull trapped in a block of amber.

might have looked in life, more than 150 million years ago. A recently discovered fossil has led Chinese researchers to conclude that a previously identified dino-bird species was an honest-to ...

NEW YORK - One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it ...

Birds evolved from dinosaurs in patchwork fashion over tens of millions of years before finally taking to the skies some 150 million years ago, paleontologists report. Birds are defined by a ...

Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct. They’re still alive among us – in the form of birds! Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction caused ...

Dino hands have a thumb, index and middle fingers, whereas birds derive their wings from the index, middle and ring fingers. Further, the earliest bird fossils predate the hairy or furry dinos by ...

Big bird - really big bird - from dino era discovered By Charles Q. Choi August 9, 2011 / 8:27 PM EDT / Livescience.com ...