Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

Experts shined UV light on the Chicago Archaeopteryx to expose otherwise invisible soft tissues. After more than two decades spent in a private collection, one of the most detailed and complete fossil ...

For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These 'rules' provide clues as to how the dinosaur ...

If you think you know everything there is to know about dinosaurs, guess again. A new species has just been uncovered. The discovery of a dinosaur skeleton was located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

A dinosaur bird that lived 147 million years ago had a brain like a modern eagle or parrot and was equipped to fly, an international team of scientists says. Archaeopteryx is the oldest bird known. It ...

Scientists say they've discovered the fossilized bones of a new type of pterosaur, a flying dinosaur-age reptile, which lived about 68 million years ago and had a wingspan of nearly 10 feet (3-meters) ...

Scientists know that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and Archaeopteryx is part of that evolutionary path. Archaeopteryx preceded the oldest bird by 75 million years. And as we know from looking at ...