(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

Only 13 Archaeopteryx fossils hve been found. See the 10th example, the Thermopolis Specimen, at the Granada Gallery, 338 N. Granada Avenue. Alanna Magovern Regester laughed after being asked when she ...

One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a century and a half after scientists first discovered the remains of Archaeopteryx, researchers have ...

(Reuters) -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, ...

A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...

A new analysis makes the best case yet that the Jurassic plume came from an iconic feathered dinosaur. This exquisitely preserved 150-million-year-old feather, the first ever discovered, was found in ...

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...