Monday, February 11, 2019

Archaeopteryx Fossil Feather Reevaluated With New Technique

via SlashGear

This new research suggests that the feather may not actually belong to Archaeopteryx, and in fact wouldn’t be attributed to Archaeopteryx if it’d been found today. Impressions of feather parts found preserved in more complete Archaeopteryx fossil compositions are different enough from this original feather that the researchers on this project “caution against the isolated feather’s association with Archaeopteryx.”

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