Archaeopteryx is the name given to an animal about the size of a crow.
In other words, it had characteristics like those of many small dinosaurs. The purpose of this page is to clarify the facts about Archaeopteryx and other similar transitional fossil species. Archaeopteryx loses its value as a transitional species. Of course, being a transitional species, Archaeopteryx did not have to fly. That is, the feathers were not an evolutionary modification of scales, but rather had to appear all on their own.