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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A powerful X-ray machine, that shines a light brighter than the sun, has helped science detectives determine the color of a 150-million-year-old feather that once belonged to an archaeopteryx, an ...

For Archaeopteryx, 2011 has been a year of ups and downs. Paleontologists celebrated the 150th anniversary of when the iconic feathered dinosaur was named. But shortly afterwards, a controversial ...

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 ...

Owing to its distinctly bird-like features, Archaeopteryx is one of the most intriguing dinosaurs known to science. Since its discovery some 150 years ago, paleontologists have wondered if the Late ...

In the 150 years since its discovery in Germany, Archaeopteryx has perched high on the avian family tree as the earliest and most primitive bird, somewhere near the evolutionary moment when some ...

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 ...

A viral claim suggesting a new "Pokémon" leak at a fossil exhibit in Chicago has confused fans online. The discussion began after a social media post showed what appeared to be a new creature reveal ...