Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of Jurassic birds, pushing back the origin of birds to the late Middle Jurassic ...

In fact, this has already begun: Researchers revealed the history of bird nests in The Netherlands by scrutinizing plastic litter used in the nests’ construction. Many different birds ...

The rare fossil helped scientists better pinpoint when different bird lineages split from each ... seed-based diets, and even nest designs may have played roles in determining who lived and ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure of its brain. In both age and ...

A birds' nest that appears to go back 30 years is helping researchers with a new study. For the first time researchers have studied the plastic found in birds' nests to work out how old they are.

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Groundbreaking discovery in East China's Fujian province reveals the oldest confirmed bird fossil from the Jurassic period. A research team led by professor ...