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Science 30 October 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3957, pp. 537 - 538
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3957.537
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Archaeopteryx: Notice of a "New" Specimen

John H. Ostrom 1

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

A fourth specimen of Archaeopteryx (cf. lithographica), the oldest known fossil bird, was recently found in the collections of the Teyler Museum in the Netherlands. Unique preservation of the horny sheaths of the manus claws provides new evidence that may be relevant to the question of the origins of avian flight. Tentative interpretation suggests a cursorial rather than arboreal origin.


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