Researchers have uncovered an intriguing set of never-before-seen features in the skull of Archaeopteryx, an iconic dinosaur that is considered a key transitional fossil in the evolution of birds, a ...

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

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable new ...