Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Weighing 140 to 300 grams, Baminornis was much smaller than Archaeopteryx – about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang. Some ...

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 discovered ...

Research on birds-of-paradise has uncovered unexpected host-switching events and revealed that quill mites may follow both strict coevolutionary patterns and opportunistic colonisation ...

Life Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird. Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived ...