At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... in dinosaurs. “Archaeopteryx isn’t the first dinosaur to have feathers ...

By Asher Elbein In 1861, scientists discovered Archaeopteryx, a dinosaur with feathers, in 150-million-year-old limestones in Solnhofen, Germany. They didn’t know it at the time, but that ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and paleontologists discovered it has a set of feathers key to flight in modern bir ...

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 ... To unravel ...

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.