The famous winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was capable of flying, according to a new study. An international research team used powerful X-ray beams to peer inside its bones, showing they were ...

All hell broke loose as the claim made headlines around the world. The fossil was Archaeopteryx - the seminal discovery made in a German quarry just a couple of years after Darwin published his ...

That fossil, known as Archaeopteryx, dates back to the Jurassic Period, roaming the Earth 150 million years ago according to ...

The Field Museum in Chicago just unveiled a new specimen of one of the most important fossils ever: Archaeopteryx. It lived around 150 million years ago, and this species is famous for marking the ...

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 ...

“Archaeopteryx is arguably the most important fossil ever discovered. It transformed how scientists see the world by providing strong support for Darwin’s theory of evolution,” says Julian ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

At the time, most reptiles were thought to eat mainly meat or insects. So, to find a reptile on this scale that only ate plants was viewed as revolutionary. Archaeopteryx is one of the world’s most ...

Archaeopteryx's strong ankles probably served as shock absorbers during landings. The bones comprising them were relatively long compared to those of related dinosaurs, and they were partially ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

Sharks, ancient cartilaginous fishes, have existed for over 410 million years, surviving five mass extinctions through their ...

Our precious birds carry on the legacy of the Jurassic era. Their evolution was not straightforward; many traits evolved ...