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★ Archaeopteryx ★
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they tiny!!!
A. lithographica is an important dinosaur to paleontology: its most famous fossil showed that birds and dinosaurs shared more than just a few anatomical similarities. The Berlin specimen (above) had feather imprints! The very presence of feather imprints on A. lithographica had basically confirmed Charles Darwin's research in On the Origin of Species, which was published two years before the discovery of the Berlin specimen.
A. lithographica was actually unable to lift its wings above its back (oops! The artist made a mistake!). "Lithographica" refers to lithography, the ancient technique of printing by using rock slabs with the desired stamp carved into it.
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