Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Monday was a big day at the Field Museum, as officials unveiled what’s been called one of the most important fossils ever discovered: the archaeopteryx.

Using an electron microscope, the researchers determined that the feather came from the left wing. They also detected melanosomes, which are microscopic pigment structures. After refining their ...

Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

“From a developmental perspective, this could be one of the most important fossils ever found,” evolutionary biologist ... complete forelimbs and hindlimbs is like a snake version of Archaeopteryx,” ...

or some 95 million years before Archaeopteryx. After the emergence of single filaments came multiple filaments joined at the base. Next to appear in the fossil record were paired barbs shooting ...

The Museum’s specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica originates from the latest Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany. It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl ...

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an ...

Paleontologists have long thought that Archaeopteryx fossils, including this one discovered in Germany, placed the dinosaur at the base of the bird evolutionary tree. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!