The fossil record offers snapshots of the past ... For example, fossils of Archaeopteryx show features of both dinosaurs and ...

Archaeopteryx fossils show it possessed feathered wings ... “Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole Jurassic and ...

Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the gap in the early fossil record, recent research offers clues ... in Germany that later yielded the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx. Scientists didn’t quite know what to make ...

This year marks the 150 th anniversary of the discovery of one of the most iconic dinosaur fossils of all time: Archaeopteryx. Unearthed in 1861 in southern Germany, it has long been considered the ...

rex. Our knowledge of these creatures is constantly changing as new fossils are unearthed. Scientists now know that dinosaurs evolved bird-like characteristics long before the appearance of ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...