After all, it was a serious bird – Archaeopteryx not only had wings -like “legs”, but could really fly.
It was the first time the archaeologists performed a computed tomography to a complete specimen.
They did it with the “first bird” in the world, an extraordinarily well-preserved Archaeopteryx-it lacks only one bone at the end of one of the skeleton’s wing fingers.
Sob ultraviolet light (UV), brilliant traces of soft fabric structures can be seen, the authors explain in the published in Nature This month.
The findings, denotes to suggest that the dinosaur similar to a bird, the size of a pigeon, could fly.
“Archaeopteryx is not the first dinosaur to have penalties, nor the first dinosaur to have ‘wings’. But we believe it is the oldest known dinosaur capable of using their feathers to fly“The main author, Jingmai O’Connor, associated curator of fossil reptiles of the Field Museum.
“Compared to most living birds, Archaeopteryx has a very long upper arm bone. And if it is trying to fly, having a long upper arm bone can create a gap between the long primary and secondary wing feathers and the rest of the body. If the air passes through this gap, it disturbs the sustainment that is generated and generating and generating and You can’t fly“.
Despite years of study and the discovery of 13 other specimens of ArchaeopteryxThere is still great controversy around this dinosaur – will it have or not have been done to fly?
“We are learning something exciting and new to virtually every part of the body we have preserved,” says O’Connor, “and this article is just the tip of the iceberg.”
