They found that cicadas in the early Cretaceous may have become 39% faster — and had 19% more flight muscle mass — than their ancestors in the late Jurassic ... species of early birds probably ...

we do not doubt that Baminornis zhenghensis is the true Jurassic bird.” Open the Youtube video Besides the subjective question of how birdlike a species must be to be considered a bird ...

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes ... lack of bones kept the researchers from classifying it as a new species. Before ...

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

(Reuters) - 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 ...

The research suggests predation by birds drove this rapid development in an evolutionary "air race," culminating in cicadas that more closely resembled modern species. But ancient giant cicadas ...