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1. Early diversification of birds: Evidence from a new opposite bird

   A new enantiornithine bird Longipteryx chaoyangensis gen. et sp. nov. is described from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in Chaoyang, western...

   Fucheng Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou, ... Gang Gu in Chinese Science Bulletin

   Article 01 June 2001

2. The Archaeoraptor forgery

   The Archaeoraptor fossil was announced as a 'missing link' and purported to be possibly the best evidence since Archaeopteryx that birds did, in...

   Timothy Rowe, Richard A. Ketcham, ... Philip J. Currie in Nature

   Article 29 March 2001
   

3. The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur

   Non-avian dinosaurs are mostly medium to large-sized animals, and to date all known mature specimens are larger than the most primitive bird, ...

   Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, Xiaolin Wang in Nature

   Article 07 December 2000
   

4. Paleornithology of China: A general review

   Study of fossil birds in China was first conducted by western scholars in last century, and extensive study of Cenozoic birds by Chinese scholars...

   Hou Lianhai, Zhou Zhonghe in Chinese Science Bulletin

   Article 01 December 1999

5. Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China

   The ancient lake beds of the lower part of the Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, northeastern China, have yielded a wide rangeof well-preserved...

   Carl C. Swisher III, Yuan-qing Wang, ... Yuan Wang in Nature

   Article 01 July 1999
   

6. The first 85 million years of avian evolution

   More than half of the evolutionary history of birds is played out in the Mesozoic. A recent burst of fossil discoveries has documented a tremendous...

   Luis M. Chiappe in Nature

   Article 01 November 1995