Archaeopteryx had a long tail more commonly found in theropods at the time. The species is still generally considered to be a bird and not a dinosaur, but the Chinese team said this status had ...

But for more than a century, it remained the only bird fossil from that era. Unlike the Archaeopteryx, which featured more reptilian traits and a long tail similar to that of a velociraptor ...

Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese ... bird. Archaeopteryx fossils show it possessed feathered wings but also a long, reptilian ...

Archaeopteryx, often considered the earliest known and arguably the only Jurassic bird, has long been ... diagram. Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating ...