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11-01-2018 9:01 PM


Paleontologists Discover New Species of Archaeopteryx
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Using synchrotron microtomography, Dr. Kundrt and colleagues examined one of 12 Archaeopteryx specimens, known as ‘specimen number eight.’
This Archaeopteryx individual is physically much closer to a modern bird than it is to a reptile, the paleontologists said.
Therefore, it is evolutionary distinctive and different enough to be described as a new species Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi.
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Some of the differing skeletal characteristics of Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi include the fusion of cranial bones, different pectoral girdle (chest) and wing elements, and a reinforced configuration of carpals and metacarpals (hand) bones.
These characteristics are seen more in modern flying birds and are not found in the older Archaeopteryx lithographica species, which more resembles reptiles and dinosaurs.

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These characteristics are seen more in modern flying birds and are not found in the older Archaeopteryx lithographica species, which more resembles reptiles and dinosaurs.
Gosh, traits intermediate between older fossils and modern birds, who would've thunk that would happen ...
Just because it is what evolution predicts.
Another test of the Theory of Evolution and it's ability to explain the fossil past ... and it validates the theory.
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