Only a dozen Archaeopteryx fossils have been discovered, most of which are in Europe. But beginning on Tuesday, May 7, Chicago’s Field Museum will make the 13th known Archaeopteryx fossil ...

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 ...

The fossil record offers snapshots of the past, revealing how life has evolved over millions of years. By studying fossils, ...

All hell broke loose as the claim made headlines around the world. The fossil was Archaeopteryx - the seminal discovery made in a German quarry just a couple of years after Darwin published his ...

These characteristics are seen more in modern flying birds and are not found in the older Archaeopteryx lithographica species, which more resembles reptiles and dinosaurs. Specimen number eight is the ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

Archaeopteryx's tail was more flexible but much longer than the short tailbones found in birds today. Because they evolved longer forelimbs than their early ancestors had had, these upright ...

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

This suggests that Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx and had high cognitive abilities. The fossil was discovered in 2016 by William Nava, director of the Marilia Paleontological ...

It bore some traits intermediate between Archaeopteryx and modern birds ... the scientist who discovered the fossil in 2016 in Sao Paulo state in southeastern Brazil. Navaornis belonged to ...

Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird characters ... fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these large extinct flightless birds. The bone ...