Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the group that includes the turkey-sized Velociraptor and the towering ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird, ...

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Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It’s the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today— are dinosaurs. And while the first ...

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 ...

(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, ...

Scans of the Chicago Archaeopteryx show feather and bone features that worked together to create lift.

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on ...

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two chapters in the story of life on Earth — one ...