Archaeopteryx: Media

fossil animal genus

Videos

How are birds and dinosaurs related?
If some dinosaurs had feathers, does that make them birds?
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Archaeopteryx: The holy grail of fossils
Archaeopteryx is the earliest known dinosaur that's also a bird.
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Images

Archaeopteryx skeleton
Archaeopteryx skeleton, cast made from a fossil found in limestone matrix.
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx, a late Jurassic dinosaur, is also considered the first known...
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bird evolution
Four stages in the evolution of modern birds.
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structural relationships
Structural relationship between Troodon (a dinosaur) and Archaeopteryx...
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Interactives

The origins of birds.
Join the search for how birds evolved from Mesozoic-era dinosaurs in our interactive.
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