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Archaeopteryx

March 2018

  • The Munich specimen of the transitional bird Archaeopteryx.

    Archaeopteryx 'flew in bursts like a pheasant', scientists say

    The winged Late Jurassic creature would take to the air in frenetic, flapping bounds, fossil x-rays show

February 2018

  • Arch12

    Lost worlds revisited
    The new specimen forcing a radical rethink of Archaeopteryx

    A new specimen has redefined who’s in and who’s out of the Archaeopteryx genus – and poses questions about other theropod dinosaurs

December 2011

  • An artist’s impression of Curiosity, Nasa’s Mars-bound science lab, as it analyses Martian rock.

    2011 in review
    Science review of 2011: the year's 10 biggest stories

    From Einstein-defying neutrinos to the discovery of an Earth-like planet: science editor Robin McKie on the year's biggest stories

October 2011

  • Archaeopteryx fossil

    Archaeopteryx regains its perch on the bird family tree

    A new study claims to re-establish the status of Archaeopteryx as the earliest bird – and not just another bird-like dinosaur

July 2011

  • Archaeopteryx fossil

    'Oldest bird' Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch in controversial new study

    The fossil Archaeopteryx may not have been one of the earliest birds but just another feathered dinosaur, claim scientists

September 2009

  • Feathered dinosaur Anchiornis huxleyi

    Feathered dinosaur fossils find has Chinese scientists all aflutter

    New find unearthed in rock formations in north-eastern China confirms birds evolved from dinosaurs, scientists claim

May 2009

  • Deal in Hamburg bar led scientist to Ida fossil, the 'eighth wonder of the world'

    Palaeontologist made scientific gamble of his life in purchasing $1m fossil to prevent it being lost to private collection

7 February 2009

  • Dinosaur directory: Archaeopteryx

    By the Late Cretaceous epoch, 70m years after Archaeopteryx, true birds had evolved

  • Archaeopteryx fossil

    Archaeopteryx in London

    Use of modern CT technology has shown that Archaeopteryx's brain was built like a modern bird's brain

  • Archaeopteryx, artist's impression

    From dinosaurs to birds

    Theories of the extraordinary evolutionary link between Archaeopteryx and modern birds date back 140 years

August 2004

  • Inside a prehistoric bird brain

  • Birdbrain helped dino soar

October 2002

  • Searching for the missing link

    Birds? Reptiles? Fakes? Archaeopteryx fossils have been generating controversy since 1861. Paul Chambers investigates a very strange creature in Bones of Contention

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