CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Monday was a big day at the Field Museum, as officials unveiled what’s been called one of the most important fossils ever discovered: the archaeopteryx.

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 ...

The discovery could transform scientific understanding of the evolution of avian brains and intelligence between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an ...

The Museum’s specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica originates from the latest Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany. It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl ...