Experts shined UV light on the Chicago Archaeopteryx to expose otherwise invisible soft tissues. After more than two decades spent in a private collection, one of the most detailed and complete fossil ...

Discovered in the 19th century, scientists once believed that the first-ever dinosaur feather used to belong to the Archaeopteryx, a transitional dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago and bridged ...

One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a century and a half after scientists first discovered the remains of Archaeopteryx, researchers have ...

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(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, ...

The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,” museum President Julian ...

A winged-dinosaur related to the birds in your backyard has intrigued paleontologists for more than 160 years. Now, a rare and spectacularly preserved fossil of this creature, known as Archaeopteryx, ...

Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025.

One of the world's most famous fossil creatures, widely considered the earliest known bird, is getting a rude present on the 150th birthday of its discovery: A new analysis suggests it isn't a bird at ...

Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur. The ...

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