A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.

The proportions of the Chicago specimen (the smallest Archaeopteryx found thus far) are very similar to birds like pigeons that forage on land. Yet the claws and hand structure suggested it could ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

It overturns the previous situation that Archaeopteryx was the only bird found in the Jurassic Period ... “Baminornis zhenghensis looks more like modern birds than Archaeopteryx,” Wang says to ...

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Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird-like dinosaur that we know of. It lived 150 million years ago, but researchers don’t know much about how the bird brain evolved from then to now. Navaornis skeleton.

Its cerebellum, a brain structure that in living birds helps coordinate motor control during flight, was smaller than in today's avian species and more like Archaeopteryx's.

Archaeopteryx possessed a long, bony tail reminiscent of predatory dinosaurs like Velociraptor. Baminornis , on the other hand, sported a shortened tail characteristic of modern birds.

“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 ...

Its cerebellum, a brain structure that in living birds helps coordinate motor control during flight, was smaller than in today's avian species and more like Archaeopteryx's.

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as the Chicago Archaeopteryx. By Asher Elbein In 1861, scientists ...

Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ... This fossil slab, acquired by the Field Museum in 2022, may not look like much to the untrained eye, ...