The fact that the two earliest-known birds display quite different anatomies and inhabited different parts of the world ... Archaeopteryx was the only unquestionable bird known from the Jurassic ...

“This is a groundbreaking discovery. It overturns the previous situation that Archaeopteryx was the only bird found in the Jurassic Period,” Zhonghe Zhou, a paleontologist at the Chinese ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Although Archaeopteryx had feathered wings ... the question of whether any unambiguous records of Jurassic birds exist. In this study, the researchers ...

World's oldest bird fossils of ... The oldest bird currently widely recognized is Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany and dating back to the Jurassic period, approximately 150 million years ...

“If we take a step back, and reconsider the phylogenetic uncertainty of Archaeopteryx, we do not doubt that Baminornis zhenghensis is the true Jurassic bird,” said Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe, co-author ...

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