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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2016-09-16 07:47 pm

Fossil Friday: Archeopteryx

One of my dinosaur books rather dubiously claims that Archeopteryx is "perhaps the most famous extinct organism in the world". I find this doubtful - surely Tyrannosaurus Rex holds that distinction?





Still, the discovery of the first Archeopteryx fossil in 1861 is a hugely important point in the history of our understanding of dinosaurs, bird evolution and evolution in general. B. has occasionally bombarded Archeopteryx specimens with fundamental particles.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2016-09-16 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's got to be T Rex

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2016-09-18 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, yes, that is a fair point

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2016-09-18 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd put woolly mammoths ahead of Archeopteryx.