Famous fossil is not an Archaeopteryx feather after all

Famous fossil is not an Archaeopteryx feather after all

Interesting Facts About Dinosaurs

Bigthink.com helps us remind ourselves how much more we have to learn.  Turns out we need to discover and learn a lot more interesting facts about dinosaurs, particularly the feathered ones.

The famous fossilized feather found in the 1860s is from some unknown animal. The fossil’s missing quill has long kept its identity unknown. We’re just at the beginning of our awareness of feathered dinosaurs. Some time in the early 1860s, at the Solnhofen Community Quarry located about halfway between […]

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