Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed ... about what exactly is a bird. When the first Archaeopteryx fossils were discovered ...

When the first Archaeopteryx fossil was unearthed in Germany ... Bird-like creatures have been around for more than 150 million years, since the Late Jurassic Period. But what about modern birds? The ...

The finding, he wrote, is among the first proof that birds lived alongside dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period. The finding helps scientists answer longstanding questions about when birds began ...

The Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains ... Archaeopteryx, sometimes known as the first bird, is a Late Jurassic dinosaur. But Susie notes that there’s a growing body of evidence that ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot and dry to humid and subtropical. 3 min read Dinosaurs, birds, and rodents ... This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million ...

they went on to dominate the rest of the Jurassic Period, which became known as the ‘Golden Age of Dinosaurs’. The post The ...

The fossil record shows that birds evolved alongside the dinosaurs during the Jurassic period 160 million years ago. The best known fossil is archaeopteryx, which was about the size of a crow.

In 1993, Jurassic ... flightless bird. “Even as a dinosaur expert, without commenting on the nitty gritty, I found it entertaining and at times, it had that wow factor that the first one had ...