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Feathered fossil shows famed dinosaur could fly (like a chicken)
Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though Archaeopteryx possessed those long arm bones, it also had proportionately sized tertials. Many of its dinosaur relatives evolved feathers, but they stopped at the elbow and lacked the tertials necessary for flight.
New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...
CT scans, UV light, and careful prep work uncovered feathers that may have given the ancient dinosaur liftoff.
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.
A 166-million-year-old Middle Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, the size of a large dog and bipedal, has been discovered on the ...
A new study on a well-preserved Archaeopteryx fossil in Chicago unveils surprising features of the earliest-known bird. By ...
Significantly, the Chicago specimen is the first known Archaeopteryx fossil to preserve tertials — the flight feathers ...
A joint Chinese-US research team has unveiled the "Chicago Archaeopteryx," an exquisitely preserved specimen of the iconic ...
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