Million-Year-Old Dinosaur-Era Bird Discovered, Experts Say 'Fossil Is Truly So One-Of-A-Kind' Scientists have been able to ...

Researchers have identified a remarkably well-preserved fossil bird, roughly the size of a starling, from the Mesozoic Era.

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

With a foreword by eminent paleontologist Luis Chiappe, Birds of the Mesozoic is a must-have book for bird lovers and anyone interested in paleontology. "Pictorially the book is a paradigm of sensory ...

“Based on the recent knowledge, fireflies originated in the Mesozoic Era although the more precise period of their origin remains unclear. … Future discoveries may reveal further information ...

Researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, identified the fossil bird - which was roughly the size of a starling - from the Mesozoic Era ...

In their paper, published in Science Advances, the group examined evolutional changes in more than 80 species of cicada wings during the Mesozoic era. Scientists have been studying the ...

But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic. The discovery comes from a fossil of an ancient ...