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 ...

Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light, hollow bones rapidly decompose. So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx ...

Scientists have located only ten intact fossilized skeletons of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx ... believed that the extraordinary bone beds in Liaoning might fill in some of the many ...

The research, which is being published in journal Historical Biology, says that some of the differing skeletal characteristics of Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi include the fusion of cranial bones, ...

Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird ... including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these ...