How birds got their wings The origin of a structure in bird wings essential to flight has been found in dinosaurs Date: February 24, 2023 Source: University of Tokyo ...

“People have been trying to understand the origin of birds as long as people have been studying evolution—and a major obstacle has been the complexity of flight and our inability to ...

The research was carried out by Ken Dial, Brandon Jackson and Paolo Segre, who are all based at the Flight Laboratory at the University of Montana. Professor Dial said: "There has been a fair amount ...

R esearchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure that could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. As detailed in a study ...

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The Baminornis fossil was discovered in 2023 during scientific fieldwork in Fujian Province's Zhenghe County. The fossil preserves much of the bird's skeleton but lacks the skull, leaving a gap in ...

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 ...