Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

This study is led by Dr. Zhu L. Yang (Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

The researchers used several methods to explore the position of Baminornis zhenghensis in the evolutionary tree of birds. The ...

Thaxterogaster is the second largest genus within the family Cortinariaceae, comprising nearly 200 species worldwide. However, the diversity of the genus in China remains largely unknown. Based on ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and between the atmosphere and biosphere, and they help researchers and ...