Bones, Voeten pointed out, record our daily stress. “The right upper arm bone of a professional tennis player is thicker than the left upper arm bone,” he said.

“The preparators of the Chicago Archaeopteryx did an outstanding job of preserving not just the bone structure, but also the soft tissue impressions,” Chapman told CNN in an email.

Unlike other specimens, the bones of the Chicago Archaeopteryx were preserved in three dimensions, and Dr. O’Connor’s team could better evaluate the skull’s palate.

UV light and CT scans helped scientists unlock hidden details in a beautifully-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx Never-before-seen feathers were the key to Archaeopteryx flight Date: May 14, 2025 ...

On the fossil’s 150th anniversary, Carney got the fossil tattooed on his arm. Carney’s love of Archaeopteryx has since transformed him into something of an expert on the creature.

The Chicago Archaeopteryx is a remarkable fossil, the “best preserved” of its kind, in fact. That’s according to palaeontologist Prof Jingmai O’Connor, who’s something of an expert in ...

(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 ...

Fossilised bones of the neck, head and one wing of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx are seen at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, US in this undated handout photograph.