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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, a discovery ...
Ice Age Cannibals: Prehistoric Europeans Cracked Skulls and Ate Brains, Study Suggests
Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.