Hey, Don't Cry, 236 Species Of Woodpecker, Ok?

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From previous fossils, they already knew the dinosaur had asymmetric feathers, which are vital to creating thrust in modern, flying birds. But the hard slab of limestone around this specimen had also preserved a key layer of feathers called tertials that had never been documented before in Archaeopteryx.

“It’s important that this is the first time these feathers have been seen,” John Nudds, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who didn’t participate in the study, tells the Guardian’s Hannah Devlin. “These new feathers seen in this beautifully preserved specimen—as well as the asymmetric feathers—confirms it could fly.”

She could fly!

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@seananmcguire Something to brighten your day. She could fly!!!

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happy 100th birthday rudy! hope you're doing well x

many birds migrate seasonally, that means that my backyard birds during the summer, get to be somebody else's backyard birds during the winter...maybe in mexico or guatemala or honduras...and this is a beautiful thing

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