New research published this week clips the wings of Archaeopteryx. First found in Germany in the 1860's and dating to 150 million years ago, Archaeopteryx has long been considered the iconic first ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, ...

Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at ...

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 scientists first discovered the remains of Archaeopteryx, researchers have ...

Archaeopteryx gets is name from Greek, archaios meaning “ancient and pteryx, meaning “feather” or “wing.” An apt name as many Archaeopteryx specimens are found with wonderfully preserved feather ...

Remember Archaeopteryx — that bird-like creature many consider to be the earliest ever? Yeah, well, it just got trumped by this guy: Meet Aurornis xui, a newly discovered species of dinosaur that ...

Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird known to science and provides compelling evidence that modern birds are direct descendants of the dinosaurs; yet only 10 have ever been found. One of the most ...