The researchers named one of the fossils Baminornis zhenghensis. For a long time, Archaeopteryx was the only widely accepted Jurassic bird. Archaeopteryx fossils show it possessed feathered wings ...

When the first Archaeopteryx fossils were discovered, shortly after the publication of Darwin’s most famous work, an amazed world hailed them as the transition point between reptiles and birds.

The Museum’s specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica originates from the latest Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, Germany. It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl ...

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 ...

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 ...