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On the threshold of flight

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We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. I speak of flight, of course. This is a key feature of birds. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in. This requires a few things to be true, depending on the fossils.

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