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Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx. Mark Hauer. http://www.daily-tangents.com/Aves/Archaeop/. Why Does This Thing Have Feathers?. What was their origin? What was their purpose?. Like a Little Monkey!. The Arboreal theory “Perching” Manus claw Ventilation structures.

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Archaeopteryx

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  1. Archaeopteryx Mark Hauer http://www.daily-tangents.com/Aves/Archaeop/

  2. Why Does This Thing Have Feathers? • What was their origin? • What was their purpose?

  3. Like a Little Monkey! • The Arboreal theory • “Perching” • Manus claw • Ventilation structures http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/archaeo.htm

  4. Move Over Prefontaine! • Cursorial theory • Bone structure http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/detail.dsml?Genus=Archaeopteryx

  5. Was I adopted? • How many have been found? • Are they obviously the same? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/info.html

  6. The missing link! …or not • Pneumatic structures • Other features Postcranial pneumatization in Archaeopteryx. Brooks Britt, et al

  7. And thus is the end of our tale http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/imgl.dsml?type_id=192&Genus=Archaeopteryx

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