Archaeopteryx: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #21
Channel: Chaotic Good
Date: 2017-06-27

http://thegeekgroup.org/ - Archaeopteryx: the first bird!  Except when it isn't.  We'll have to look at how cladistics works to understand why this little fluffy dinosaur is so hotly debated.
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Video Links:

4:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeRfspn67j8

5:18 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archaeopteryx_lithographica_(Cast_of_London_Specimen).jpg

5:23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArchaeopteryxTheUrvogelFeather.jpg

5:31 http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/153/33

6:20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archaeopteryx_lithographica_(Berlin_specimen).jpg

6:26 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54181#page/1/mode/1up

10:17 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12059.html

12;46 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7507/full/nature13467.html

12:33 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235418713_Lift_devices_in_the_flight_of_Archaeopteryx

13:33 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00245.x#81508719
 
13:33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archaeopteryx_lithographica_Thermopolis.jpg

14:44 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00245.x#81508719

15:19 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14576
c.f. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCKXPuyASA

17:07 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1642
CORRECTION:  TheDubstepAddict has pointed out that, as of 2016, the isolated feather is not thought to be from Archaeopteryx, so coloration is still up in the air.
https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/233288

19:25 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6073/1215.full

21:45 https://www.flickr.com/photos/kkoshy/8566795379/

22:12 http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(12)01194-3.pdf

31:25 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/562.full
c.f  http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2014/07/50-milioni-di-anni-di-miniaturizzazione.html
&  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/50-million-years-of-incredible-shrinking-theropod-dinosaurs/

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