Fossil Discovery in China Redefines Timeline of Bird Evolution

[NHK] The world's first fossil of a bird with a short tail bone, similar to that of modern birds, has been discovered in a Jurassic layer dating back approximately 150 million years ago in southern China...

Why this Jurassic bird fossil from China might rewrite evolutionary history

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

Jurassic Fossil Discovered in China Sheds New Light on Origin of Birds

An artist’s reconstruction of Baminornis zhenghensis. Credit: UnexpectedDinoLesson / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dated to 150 million years ago, in Fujian Province, China. This discovery offers new evidence regarding the origins of fossil birds and implies that avian species may have appeared earlier than traditionally thought, altering existing theories of avian evolution. The fossil, named Baminorni…

Scientists Discover 'Groundbreaking' Jurassic Fossil That Could Overhaul the Evolutionary History of Birds

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but looked much more like modern birds due to its short tail

Scientists have unearthed the fossils of a quail-sized bird in southeastern China that lived about 150 million years ago, in the Jurassic period, and had surprisingly similar features...

Fossils found in eastern China belonging to oldest short-tailed bird dating 150M years

Discovery of Baminornis zhenghensis fossils change timeline of birds' emergence, say Chinese scientists - Anadolu Ajansı