The museum acquired this Archaeopteryx specimen in 2022, and at the time, museum president and CEO Julian Siggers called it “the Field Museum’s most significant fossil acquisition since SUE ...

Archaeopteryx specimens have, “maybe more than any other fossil, changed the way that we see the world,” said Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago.

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, ... Study using UV light and CT scans shows the 150 million-year-old specimen had specialized flight feathers. By Greg Wehner Fox News.

Archaeopteryx lived 150 million years ago during Jurassic Period Details revealed about its feathers, hands, feet and head Specialized feathers called tertials detected in specimen May 14 (Reuters ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs.Although the first fossil of this ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time.