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Archaeopteryx lithographica is the connecting link between aves and reptile. It is fossil bird found in rocks of jurassic period by Andreas Wagner. It's fossil is still kept in the muesuem of Berlin and London. It's appearance and size were like that of crow but had both characters of aves and reptiles suggesting that aves have been evolved from reptile.
It's characters were as follows :
1. It had beak like bird but had teeth and heavier jaws like reptile.
2. It's forelimbs were modified into wings but had claws on wings like reptile.
3. It had feathers like bird but also had scales like reptile.
4. It had feathery tail like bird but tail vertebrae like reptile.
Archaeopteryx lithographica is the connecting link between aves and reptile. It is fossil bird found in rocks of jurassic period by Andreas Wagner. It's fossil is still kept in the muesuem of Berlin and London. It's appearance and size were like that of crow but had both characters of aves and reptiles suggesting that aves have been evolved from reptile.
It's characters were as follows :
1. It had beak like bird but had teeth and heavier jaws like reptile.
2. It's forelimbs were modified into wings but had claws on wings like reptile.
3. It had feathers like bird but also had scales like reptile.
4. It had feathery tail like bird but tail vertebrae like reptile.
If we left a crow and crocodile dead body together for long years and the fossil which obtained after million years isn't it be like same as archaeopteryx
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