Peak spring ... Mountains and birds such as Clark's nutcracker, the mountain chickadee and rosy finches. Whether higher elevation birds move depends on local conditions. Short-distance migrants ...

It had some advanced bird-like features in its shoulder and pelvic areas, but it also retained a more primitive, dinosaur-like hand. Most remarkably, Baminornis had a short tail ending in a ...

Researchers 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 ...

One of the two fossils, which they named Baminornis zhenghensis, possess bird-like shoulder and pelvic girdles. It also has a short tail. That feature connects it solidly to contemporary birds, ...

Chinese palaeontologists have found what could be the world’s oldest bird fossil, a “landmark” find that could shed light on one of the most important chapters in evolutionary history.

The oldest known bird with a short, modern tail has been discovered. When birds first evolved, they would have initially been very dinosaur-like. While some of their ancestral features stood the test ...

Baminornis lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx but it has a short tail like those of modern birds, pushing back the date of this evolutionary innovation by 20 million years. “A short tail is ...

These characteristics highlight the role of mosaic evolution in early bird development. Notably, Baminornis zhenghensis has a short tail ending in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature ...