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

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

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaur tail dating back nearly 99 million years ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— ...

"It is a single community of a single species of animal from a snapshot in time," professor Emily Bamforth said.

Sun filters through dense stands of cycads and conifers of Gondwana, where a lithe, bipedal predator slowly moves through the ...

Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

Instead, dinosaurs might have been widespread from the beginning, but their fossils in the north are harder to find due to fewer well-preserved rock layers. The process of uncovering and studying ...