Bye-Bye Birdie: New Look at Archaeopteryx Shows It Was More Dinosaur Than Bird
Friday, October 9, 2009 - 14:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Just as Charles Darwin was proposing his radical theory of evolution , paleontologists discovered a curious fossil specimen in modern-day Germany: Archaeopteryx . The feathered specimen, pegged by many as the first bird , helped provide further evidence for the theory of evolution and the idea that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs. [More]
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