Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first ...

This 150-million-year-old fossil is rewriting the story of how flight began.

Based on what we know of living birds with long wings, the role of tertial feathers is primarily to close the wing gap and ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— ...

"And if you're trying to fly, having a long upper arm bone can create a gap between the long primary and secondary feathers of the wing and the rest of your body. If air passes through that gap ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive ...

"Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur with feathers, nor is it the first dinosaur with wings. However, we think it is the ...

Now, just weeks after making his wild entrance, Bradford actor Shebz Miah, who plays the Emmerdale bad boy, has been ...