Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Only 13 Archaeopteryx fossils hve been found. See the 10th example, the Thermopolis Specimen, at the Granada Gallery, 338 N. Granada Avenue. Alanna Magovern Regester laughed after being asked when she ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a well-preserved skull fossil that could advance our understanding of avian intelligence. This ancient bird lived in what is now Brazil roughly 80 million years ago in ...

(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, ...

It’s now widely accepted that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but imagine telling that to a 19th-century fossil collector. Before the idea of feathered dinosaurs was even on the table, several ancient ...