Archaeopteryx has been a source of fascination since the first fossils were found in the 1860s. Treading the line between birds and dinosaurs, the animal was a similar size to a magpie ...

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an ...

The discovery could transform scientific understanding of the evolution of avian brains and intelligence between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl Haberlein in 1862 for £700. Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird characters. It is one of the few fossils ...

Alanna Magovern Regester laughed after being asked when she first attended a Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. “It was back when ...

rex. Our knowledge of these creatures is constantly changing as new fossils are unearthed. Scientists now know that dinosaurs evolved bird-like characteristics long before the appearance of ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

From the Galapagos Islands to New Zealand, species of birds that exist today model ... the progress of winged flight from Pterodactyl to Archaeopteryx to Red-tailed hawk. In the second episode ...

Step back in time to the Mesozoic Era, where dinosaurs ruled the Earth. With this quiz, you’ll encounter iconic giants like ...