Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeopteryx Fossil Chicago One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a ...

This illustration shows what Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi may have looked like during its heyday, about 150 million years ago. After years spent sitting in private collections, a "phantom" fossil of ...

The skeleton of Xiaotingia (head is to the left) From Xu et al., 2011 Sometimes my timing is just plain awful. I had waited for years to see an authentic specimen of Archaeopteryx—the feather-covered ...

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Angela Milner: You're looking at a virtual model of the reconstructed brain of something which most people can still regard as the earliest known bird. Other people like to think of it merely as an ...

The magpie-sized Archaeopteryx had bird and dinosaur features and helped show that birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, recent research in the journal Nature questions its position in the ...

For Archaeopteryx, 2011 has been a year of ups and downs. Paleontologists celebrated the 150th anniversary of when the iconic feathered dinosaur was named. But shortly afterwards, a controversial ...

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Archaeopteryx's status as the forerunner of modern birds is crumbling in the face of a new, closely-related fossil. The new discovery, a feathered, chicken-sized dinosaur named Xiaotingia, has ...

The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less "bird-like" than scientists had believed. The raptor-like ...

The iconic, winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was dressed for flight, an international team of researchers has concluded. The group identified the color of the raven-sized creature's fossilized wing ...