Media Coverage of X-Rays Reveal Chemical Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs Press Release

Researchers have found that a 150 million year old "dinobird" fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has been hiding remnants of the animal's original chemistry. Using the bright X-ray beam of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, an international team of paleontologists, geochemists and physicists has revealed this transformative glimpse into one of the most important fossils ever discovered: the Archaeopteryx, a half-dinosaur/half-bird species. Read the press release...

Print/Web Coverage

San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/11/BAKG1DCC9M.DTL&type=science

ABC 7 News: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=7436639

New York Times: http://nyti.ms/afHeuQ (Scroll down for brief)

BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10106530.stm

UPI.Com: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/05/11/Flying-dinosaur-really-had-feathers/UPI-79031273626866/

Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/dinobird-chemistry-revealed.html

Discover Magazine: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/05/10/x-rays-from-accelerator-show-archaeopteryx-was-chemically-linked-to-birds/

Science News: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59062/title/Archaeopteryx_fossil_seen_in_new_light_

New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18882-soft-tissue-remnants-discovered-in-archaeopteryx-fossil.html

PhysOrg: http://www.physorg.com/news192714033.html

The Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Dinobird+chemistry+revealed/3016498/story.html