The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

A team of researchers from China and the United States has shed new light on the ancient evolutionary transition from ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.

BEIJING -- A new study led by researchers from China and the United States has unveiled a well-preserved specimen of ...

A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

Most people know only two things when it comes to the dodo: they were stupid, and now they are extinct. But this simplistic view leaves out the full picture. In this video, we're exploring the many ...

T he dodo has become an enduring symbol of humanity’s role in driving species to extinction. By the late 17th century, ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

"Later we found it might be because the eagle owl struggled a long time in the river,"Zhou said, adding they found an old fracture of the bird's keel bone. "In the artificial environments ...

The situation changed dramatically in 1865 when schoolteacher George Clark discovered a substantial cache of dodo bones in the marshlands of Mare aux Songes in Mauritius. This discovery provided ...