Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

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 ...

Scientists have analysed a new Archaeopteryx fossil. This fossil reveals specialised feathers. These feathers aided in flight ...

For years, paleontologists have debated whether Archaeopteryx could truly fly. The Chicago specimen may finally put this debate to rest as it preserved a set of long, symmetrical feathers on the upper ...

A fossil collector discovered the Chicago Archaeopteryx sometime before 1990 in limestone deposits near Solnhofen, Germany, where all known Archaeopteryx fossils originate. It was privately owned ...