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A couple of months ago, I picked up on the news that Archaeopteryx had been rebumped in its* phylogeny to now sit among the ... Xu's new phylogeny, but here we are! They have elevated Archaeopteryx out of the ashes, to reinstate it once again proudly among the ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - Oct 27 2011 - 12:42pm - 0 attachments

... the rolling news channels. No; it's the news that Archaeopteryx may be knocked off its pedestal as the earliest bird in the fossil record, based on a new phylogeny by Xu et al. Archaeopteryx is now deemed to be just another deinonychosaur; probably ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 29 2011 - 12:39am - 0 attachments

... episode of fakery that just wasn't. This is the tale of Archaeopteryx , who has weathered the storm and has retained its place as ... Watkins (photographer) from contending that the famous Archaeopteryx es were faked. Now, why would they do such a thing? After all, ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - May 31 2011 - 11:22pm - 0 attachments

A 150 million year old Archaeopteryx fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and ... between dinosaurs and modern birds, The authors say. "Archaeopteryx is to paleontology what Tutankhamen is to archaeology. It's ... animal. But guess what—we were wrong." When the first Archaeopteryx specimen was uncovered a century and a half ago, just a year ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2011 - 11:31pm - 0 attachments

Paleontologists and some in biology have long believed that modern birds are the direct descendants of ancient, meat-eating dinosaurs. Researchers at Oregon State University contend they have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2009 - 3:16pm - 0 attachments

... paleontologists for ages, is the 150 million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the first-known example of a feathered dinosaur and the proposed ... "Virtually all articulated specimens of Archaeopteryx are in this posture, exhibiting a classic pose of head thrown ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2007 - 9:48pm - 0 attachments

Archaeopteryx (Urvogel ) is the most primitive bird yet discovered.   Found ... the Yixian Formation in China which are more recent than Archaeopteryx demonstrate rapid growth more similar to that of modern birds, ... mature, and we found evidence for this same pattern in Archaeopteryx and its closest relatives," says Gregory Erickson of the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:57pm - 0 attachments

A new commentary just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that more evidence is mounting that birds did not evolve from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs and challenging decades of accepted theories about the evolu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2010 - 6:27pm - 0 attachments

With the first decade of the millennium coming to a close, it is time to take stock. What have ' The Noughties ' brought us in terms of scientific advances? Some remarkable scientific discoveries wer ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 27 2009 - 2:31pm - 0 attachments

... dinosaur Anchiornis.  A  pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the ... writes, "that whole debate. By predating Archaeopteryx , Anchiornis shows that bird-like ... conceivably went through a 'four-wing' stage ." Archaeopteryx , ancient feather or wing ,  entered the scene ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 17 2009 - 8:37am - 0 attachments