The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

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 ...

Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird characters ... including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence ...

Navaornis had a bigger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, so its cognitive capabilities ... birds called enantiornithines, which became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period.

Like Archaeopteryx, many of these animals are ... arose in the late Cretaceous period and somehow lived through a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to the latest genetic ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed ... We know this because some fossils from creatures such as Archaeopteryx and Sinosauropteryx — both theropod dinosaurs — have ...