Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

The predator, whose name means “ancient wing,” lived 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period and is the first dinosaur to qualify as a bird. “Archaeopteryx is the fossil that ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird ... and certainly not for flying.

The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe as ... questions about when birds began to diversify into the flying animals we think of today. More: A dinosaur museum in ...

The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat ...

New work on old specimens, and the discoveries of dinosaur and early bird species in the field, supported the idea that dinosaurs were ... The gradual evolutionary change – from fast-running, ...

This gives birds their distinct—and misleading—"backward-facing knee" look. Like its non-flying close relatives, Microraptor had elongated bones lining the top and underside of its tail ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl Haberlein in 1862 for £700. Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird characters. It is one of the few fossils ...

A new family tree of the meat-eating dinosaurs shows where birds perch among their closest dinosaur relatives. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx ... its jawbone and teeth were like those of a small dinosaur, and its extended spine formed a tail, another reptilian feature ...