A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an ...

The Chicago specimen is the smallest Archaeopteryx ever discovered, about the size of a pigeon. It was found in limestone ...

Did the first modern tetrapods, our own distant ancestors, emerge in the temperate Devonian landscapes of southern Gondwana, ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Scientists have analysed a new Archaeopteryx fossil. This fossil reveals specialised feathers. These feathers aided in flight ...

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

Recently, a joint Chinese–American research team led by Dr. HU Han from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Significantly, the Chicago specimen is the first known Archaeopteryx fossil to preserve tertials — the flight feathers ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

"Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur with feathers, nor is it the first dinosaur with wings. However, we think it is the ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds ...