A new view of the origin of bird flight emerges. BOZEMAN, MONT.--It's not often that a presentation given to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology elicits coos and clucks of sympathy.

A new theory of the origin of birds, traditionally believed to be driven by the evolution of flight, is now being credited to the emergence of enlarged skeletal muscles in birds. Their upright two ...

Bob Janssen, who knows Minnesota bird history very well, told me that the first known record for a cardinal here is Oct. 23, 1875, in Minneapolis.

Xiaotingia zhengi skeleton XU ET AL. NATURE. This year marks the 150 th anniversary of the discovery of one of the most iconic dinosaur fossils of all time: Archaeopteryx.Unearthed in 1861 in southern ...

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 ...

Fossil ‘overturns more than a century of knowledge about origin of modern birds’ Each of the roughly 11,000 species of birds on Earth today is classified into one of two groups, based on the ...

Fossil muddies the origin of birds. New specimen may be a feathered dinosaur — or the earliest avian yet discovered. EARLY BIRD This new fossil, ...

The first big clue to the origin of birds came in 1861, when quarry workers in Solnhofen, Germany, found a spectacular fossil of a 145-million-year-old bird that came to be called Archaeopteryx.

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. The recently discovered ...

(Image credit: Glen Fergus). Although the exact origin of the phrase is uncertain, some have their theories. For example, in 2000, Ed Finegan, a professor emeritus of linguistics and law at the ...

The dinosaur's name is Anchiornis — meaning "near bird" — and lived 160 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period. Its features included bird-like arms and legs, a slender tail and ...

A Brief History of Robot Birds The early Greeks and Renaissance artists had birds on their brains. Jimmy Stamp. May 22, 2013. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!