Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

A fossil from China that's 150 million years old may be the world's earliest ... about the size of a quail – and it would have looked more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx did, says Wang.

The recently discovered quail-sized creature, called Baminornis zhenghensis, flew through the skies when dinosaurs roamed the earth and is among the oldest birds ever discovered, along with the ...