For more than a century and a half since its discovery in 1861, Archaeopteryx -- a small feathered dinosaur around the size of a crow that lived in marshland around 150 million years ago -- was widely considered to be the oldest flying bird.
They came across a petrified wing, which the team initially assumed to be the same species. They soon found several differences, however. They called the new bird-like dinosaur Alcmonavis poeschli -- from the old Celtic word for a nearby river and the scientist who discovered the fossil, excavation leader Roland Poeschl., said Alcmonavis poeschli was "the most bird-like bird discovered from the Jurassic."
Significantly, this "flapping" trait found in Alcmonavis poeschli is present in more recent birds, but not in Archaeopteryx.
Cool when will the Earth go back to Animals? 1000 more years......
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