For more than 20 years, USF Associate Professor Ryan Carney has pursued paleontology's biggest questions about Archaeopteryx ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worldwide, there are currently just 12 known Archaeopteryx fossil skeletons – but researchers believe one might in fact be a new species: Ostromia crassipes A paper published earlier this week in BMC ...

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 ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The crown of the famous 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil as the first bird has been restored by a new evolutionary tree. In a study published today in the journal Biology ...

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 ...