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Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xu suggests that feather evolution may have gotten started in a common ancestor of pterodactyls and dinosaurs—nearly 240 million years ago, or some 95 million years before Archaeopteryx.

This is because it was a dinosaur—one that evolved long after the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, split off from the dinosaur family tree. Earlier dinosaurs, common ancestors to both ...

A fossil from China that's 150 million years old may be the world's earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...