The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer

The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer The question of whether the Late Jurassic dino-bird Archaeopteryx was an elaborately feathered ground dweller, a glider, or an active flyer has fascinated palaeontologists for decades. Valuable new information obtained with state-of-the-art synchrotron microtomography allowed an international team of scientists to answer this question. http://ift.tt/eA8V8J