Scientists found a fossil of a Jurassic bird. Here's how it could rewrite history.
Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.
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Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...
Newly Discovered Jurassic Bird Rewrites History
A quail-size fossil uncovered in China suggests birds evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
a discovery that rewrites the history of avian evolution. The newly identified bird, called Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany in 1861 ...
About a third of bird species in U.S. need conservation help, new report says
State of the Birds report identifies 112 "tipping point" species — those that have lost more than half their populations in the past five decades.
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Birds-of-Paradise Feathers Are More Than Flashy—They Glow
Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...
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Birds’ nests reveal history of the plastic age
His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...