The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,” museum ...

A rare Archaeopteryx fossil was kept from scientists for decades. Its first-ever analysis reveals ‘one wow after another’ Story by Mindy Weisberger, CNN • 2w ...

The museum acquired this Archaeopteryx specimen in 2022, and at the time, museum president and CEO Julian Siggers called it “the Field Museum’s most significant fossil acquisition since SUE ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Field Museum is home to one of the most important fossils ever discovered. It's called the Archaeopteryx. It once had feathers, hollow bones, clawed wings, 50 tiny teeth and a ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, seen under UV light, shows soft tissues alongside the skeleton. Delaney Drummond Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago ...

The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less "bird-like" than scientists had believed.

Paleontologists at LMU correct a case of misinterpretation: The first fossil "Archaeopteryx" to be discovered is actually a predatory dinosaur belonging to the anchiornithid family, which was ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...

While most Archaeopteryx fossil specimens “are incomplete and crushed,” this fossil was missing just one digit and remained unflattened by time, said lead study author Dr. Jingmai O’Connor ...