Picture a bird hatching from an egg and falling out of the nest...  ...sed in sap. Skip ahead 99 million years, and that bird , now a fossil encased in amber, was found and tak...  ...ber Museum in Tengchong City, China.Unlike modern birds , this newborn hatchling is from a now-...

At one time, it seemed silly to think that birds descended from dinosaurs. Now it's pretty well ac...  ...nd turns on the evolutionary path from reptile to bird . There are certain features we think of as avian,...  ...n place of teeth. But fossils of Hongshanornis, a bird only...