For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...
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Archaeopteryx is the earliest dinosaur also classified as a bird, and it has some bizarre features
In the skull of Archaeopteryx, researchers uncovered new features that may have helped the ancient creature obtain and ...
Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...
Long before humans walked the Earth, the skies of South America were ruled by a colossal bird. Argentavis magnificens, one of ...
Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These 'rules' provide clues as to how the dinosaur ...
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Scientists still have so much to learn about Archaeopteryx, the dinosaur that may have flown like a bird
Around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period lived Archaeopteryx, a dinosaur considered an early ancestor of birds that has fascinated paleontologists since it was first discovered in ...
That critter that flew in and landed on your bird feeder or a nearby tree branch is a dinosaur. Yes, really. “Every bird is a dinosaur,” said Colin Sumrall, associate professor of paleobiology in the ...
A dinosaur bird that lived 147 million years ago had a brain like a modern eagle or parrot and was equipped to fly, an international team of scientists says. Archaeopteryx is the oldest bird known. It ...
Ferocious tyrannosaurs and towering sauropods are long gone, but dinosaurs continue to frolic in our midst. We’re talking about birds, of course, yet it’s not entirely obvious why we should consider ...
All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur’s pelvis. That’s one of the findings in a new, Yale-led study in the journal Nature that explores the ...
Scientists know that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and Archaeopteryx is part of that evolutionary path. Archaeopteryx preceded the oldest bird by 75 million years. And as we know from looking at ...
Birds can fly— at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don’t require flight. However, there’s a lot that scientists don’t know about how ...
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