The limestone slab was originally unearthed in the 1980s near Solnhofen, Germany, and spent decades in private collections. Only in 2022 did it arrive at the Field Museum, thanks to a coalition of ...

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 ...

The Field Museum in Chicago (Google Maps) In March 2018, researchers suggested Archaeopteryx could probably fly, but in a different way from modern-day birds, in rapid, short bursts over short ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“When we first got our Archaeopteryx, I was like, this is very, very, very cool, and I was beyond excited,” Jingmai O’Connor, the Field Museum’s associate curator of fossil reptiles and ...

Illustration showing Archaeopteryx in life, including its tertial feathers that would have helped it fly. Credit: Michael Rothman . According to Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...