Archaeopteryx
It has beautiful feathers and wings, sharp claws and teeth, and a long tail, and its name is Archaeopteryx. It is the ancestor of birds and a member of the dinosaur family.
Archaeopteryx, which means "ancient wing" in Greek, is similar in size and shape to a magpie.
Archaeopteryx that inhabited ancient lakes or swamps, if it happened to fall into the delicate silt after death, and was slowly compacted by the silt in the long years that followed, turned into stone, and was not destroyed by temperature and pressure, it would eventually retain the skeleton of the Archaeopteryx, and if lucky, it could leave a feather mark in the rock. This is how Archaeopteryx fossils are formed. Archaeologists have studied Archaeopteryx fossils and found that Archaeopteryx lived in the Late Jurassic Period, about 155 million to 150 million years ago.
Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur
We know that birds have a pair of wings with feathers on their wings, and many birds have beautiful feathers on their wings. So does an animal with wings have to be a bird?
Archaeopteryx is famous because of the exquisite feathers preserved in its fossils. In the restored painting of Archaeopteryx, we can see its exquisite feathers on its large wings, and a long and beautiful tail extending behind it. So, Archaeopteryx is a bird? The teacher taught us to observe things from the subtleties, to go deep into the interior of the object, and not to blindly conclude based on the appearance alone. Under the microscope, features such as the feather structure and skeleton of Archaeopteryx bear striking resemblance to fossils of other dinosaurs discovered later