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Archaeopteryx: First Bird Facts by Joana Opari is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Archaeopteryx, which lived during the late Jurassic period in Germany, was considered the earliest known bird. Though only the size of a modern magpie at 1.6 feet long, it had features of both birds and dinosaurs, including teeth, claws on its wings and toes, and broad wings that allowed it to fly. Scientific research indicates the Archaeopteryx was more closely related to dinosaurs than modern birds, making it a transitional fossil between terrestrial dinosaurs and the first animals capable of flight,
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- Joana Opari
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