Despite its reputation, science isn't immune from making mistakes or chasing sensationalism, but one hoax in particular was ...

Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur. The ...

For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

(Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The "early bird" archaeopteryx may not be a bird, after all. Scientists who examined pieces of fossil bone concluded that ...

All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur’s pelvis. That’s one of the findings in a new, Yale-led study in the journal Nature that explores the ...

A winged-dinosaur related to the birds in your backyard has intrigued paleontologists for more than 160 years. Now, a rare and spectacularly preserved fossil of this creature, known as Archaeopteryx, ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

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This is an Inside Science story. Just a few million years before an asteroid killed nearly all dinosaurs on Earth, a creature resembling a small albatross with teeth flew through the Cretaceous skies.

Scientists know that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and Archaeopteryx is part of that evolutionary path. Archaeopteryx preceded the oldest bird by 75 million years. And as we know from looking at ...