Field Museum Acquires Fossil of Archaeopteryx, the Earliest Known Bird
May 07, 2024
May 07, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, May 7 -- The Field Museum issued the following news release:
Every bird you've ever seen-- every pigeon at a bus stop, every penguin at the zoo-- is a living, breathing dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction caused when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago. A fossil called Archaeopteryx (ar key-AHP-ter-icks) with feathers, hollow bones, clawed wings, fifty tiny teeth, and a long bony tail is the earliest kn . . .
Every bird you've ever seen-- every pigeon at a bus stop, every penguin at the zoo-- is a living, breathing dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction caused when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago. A fossil called Archaeopteryx (ar key-AHP-ter-icks) with feathers, hollow bones, clawed wings, fifty tiny teeth, and a long bony tail is the earliest kn . . .