The Best Archaeopteryx Fossil Ever Found Just Showed It Could Fly
An extraordinary fossil of Archaeopteryx reshapes what we know about the origin of flight.
Tag: Archaeopteryx
Oldest feather does not belong to Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx remains a key link in dinosaur-bird evolution, but maybe it wasn't all that unique.
Amazing fossil shows that Earth’s earliest birds evolved just like Darwin’s finches
These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.
This 125-million-year old bird possibly flew above dinosaurs
The remarkably well preserved fossil of a wing that belonged to an early Cretaceous bird suggests some of the first ...
Bird like fossil is older than Archaeopterix
The fossil, which still retains impressions of feathers, is 160 million years old, predating the oldest Archaeopterix fossil found by ...
Modern birds evolved from gliding dinosaurs
Artist impression of Archaeopteryx lithographica by Carl Buell Today's birds' ancestors descended from non-avian dinosaurs according to a recent paper ...
Oldest bird might not be a bird in the first place
In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...
Missing flying reptile link found
An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...
9 Dinosaurs that marked the planet
How the dinosaurs appeared is clear, but it's not so clear how they dissapeared. One thing's for sure, they ruled ...
Scientists discover ‘world’s first bird’, and compare it to another
Archaeopteryx has been the subject of many controversies, but it is now widely considered as the world's oldest bird; however, ...
