Thanks to this new insight, the team says that this individual Archaeopteryx fossil, known as ‘specimen number eight’, is physically much closer to a modern bird than it is to a reptile. Therefore, it ...

Only a dozen other archaeopteryx specimens have been found; most of them are in Europe. The Field Museum is the only natural history museum in the western hemisphere to have an archaeopteryx fossil.

Only 13 Archaeopteryx fossils have ever been found, and all have come from Bavaria in southern Germany. But unlike the Chicago specimen, many are crushed or missing body parts that scientists need ...

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 ...