The fossil was Archaeopteryx - the seminal discovery made ... invisible in the SLR images, could be matched up on the part and counterpart. Likewise, the branching of manganese crystals running ...

Archaeopteryx has been a source of fascination since the first fossils were found in the 1860s. Treading the line between birds and dinosaurs, the animal was a similar size to a magpie ...

CHICAGO — The Field Museum unveiled its acquisition Monday of a fossil showing the earliest known bird species — Archaeopteryx. Only a dozen other Archaeopteryx specimens have been found with ...

From pigeons in the park to penguins in the Antarctic, all birds are living breathing dinosaurs, believe scientists, thanks to the discovery of a fossil of a dinosaur called Archaeopteryx.