CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A rare and prized fossil of the feathered Archaeopteryx — thought to be Earth's first bird — has become something of an albatross to a small Wyoming museum. While the scientific ...

The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,” museum President Julian ...

Archaeopteryx's status as the forerunner of modern birds is crumbling in the face of a new, closely-related fossil. The new discovery, a feathered, chicken-sized dinosaur named Xiaotingia, has ...

One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a century and a half after scientists first discovered the remains of Archaeopteryx, researchers have ...

Archaeopteryx, believed for 150 years to have been the first bird, was probably only a feathered dinosaur that had great difficulty getting off the ground when it lived 150 million years ago, ...

Just 11 archaeopteryx fossils have been collected since the first one was discovered 150 years ago. To discern the true colors of the dinobird’s plumage, the researchers scanned a well-preserved ...

The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less "bird-like" than scientists had believed. The raptor-like ...

The iconic, winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was dressed for flight, an international team of researchers has concluded. The group identified the color of the raven-sized creature's fossilized wing ...

To settle a lengthy debate, a team of paleontologists says the specimen unearthed in the 19th century was shed by an archaeopteryx. By Lucas Joel The feather looks like any feather you might find on ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After years spent sitting in private collections, a "phantom" fossil of one of the world's first ...