(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, ...

The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long tail ...

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(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, ...

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 ...

Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025.

When Pete Makovicky first sets eyes on a new dinosaur fossil, it’s typically after it emerges from the dust and other debris of a rock formation. Until 2019, he’d never seen one come out of a ...