Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

One such fossil was recently acquired by Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and has provided answers to the longstanding question about flight in Archaeopteryx. Researchers published a ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

Scientists with the Field Museum of Chicago have discovered that a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in its collection displays an array of features previously unknown when it comes to the ...

A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird, providing ...

That fossil was a nearly complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx — the oldest ... Only in 2022 did it arrive at the Field Museum, thanks to a coalition of supporters. What the museum got was far ...

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

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Thanks to an exhaustive analysis of the so-called Chicago Archaeopteryx, an exceptionally well-preserved specimen that has recently been incorporated into the Field Museum’s collection, scientists ...

One such fossil was recently acquired by Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History and has provided answers to the longstanding question about flight in Archaeopteryx. Researchers published a ...

Chicago Museum's Fossil Yields Insights on Famed Early Bird Archaeopteryx By Will Dunham (Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in ...