Tag: Archaeopteryx

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Archaeopteryx remains a key link in dinosaur-bird evolution, but maybe it wasn't all that unique.

These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.

The remarkably well preserved fossil of a wing that belonged to an early Cretaceous bird suggests some of the first ...

The fossil, which still retains impressions of feathers, is 160 million years old, predating the oldest Archaeopterix fossil found by ...

Artist impression of Archaeopteryx lithographica by Carl Buell Today's birds' ancestors descended from non-avian dinosaurs according to a recent paper ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...

How the dinosaurs appeared is clear, but it's not so clear how they dissapeared. One thing's for sure, they ruled ...

Archaeopteryx has been the subject of many controversies, but it is now widely considered as the world's oldest bird; however, ...