by Reinhold Leinfelder
In 2011, there again to celebrate a birthday Evolution: Archaeopteryx, the first bird, even about 150 million years old, was found for the first time 150 years ago. The media take this opportunity to report back mode already and increasingly across the first bird. Since its discovery, it is therefore hardly out of the headlines.
- in Darwin in 2009 ADLDS reported only once, like the creationists, evolution of Archaeopteryx specimen Parade "accompanied by mysterious Fund also" tried to qualify, but it was in vain ( > ADLDS ).
- Then there were quite real, not only a rendezvous of most copies in Munich, but in particular the long-overdue legislation, the 10th Archaeopteryx specimen and make it permanently for research and exhibition purposes available (ADLDS reported here and here ).
- 2010 were intriguing new results on the (rather small) Aviation Arts of Archie known (> ADLDS) and this year so now anniversary.
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| The new Archaeopteryx coin (from the website the Ministry of Finance ) |
The highlight will be the publication of a 1 0- € commemorative coin Archaeopteryx, on 11 August 2011 will be issued and to be admired is already online, depicted the most famous, the Berlin specimen . In addition, there also will be a special stamp Archaeopteryx 55 cents, also on 11.8. 2011 comes out. Some designs are to see it online :
But the media do not wait until then, here a few recent reports of Archaeopteryx:
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 06.02.2011
Darwin's key witness. To date, the fossil of Archaeopteryx is one of the most important evidence of evolution
"Fossils are the most interesting witness of the earth, and sometimes even the history of the finds themselves anything but boring. This applies especially to the best-known fossil animal at all, the primitive bird Archaeopteryx, which was in 1861, found exactly 150 years ago, in Solnhofen.
are It does not only scientific aspects, that Archaeopteryx is the professionals and public alike in suspense. A mixture of personal feelings, cold hard facts strife and financial demands Since the discovery of the first bird some Vortex causes. The 10 known Archaeopteryx specimens make today and over again for scholarly controversy and headlines in the daily press, which over a long period might probably no other species have succeeded ..."( > Read )
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 02.06.2011
good business with a fossil
"After the first find of Archaeopteryx to London had been sold wanted to keep German zoologist at least the second copy at home.
The proud owner was Otto Ernst Häberlein. The sale had been the first Archaeopteryx His father earned a lot of money. The price expectations were also times that this horrendous, that fit the Bavarian State Collection had. The Yale University could not keep up, and even a petition to the Emperor Wilhelm I was not successful, what the German-born Geneva zoology professor and later the National Carl Vogt moved to remark that the Emperor would probably have chosen a purchase if it would have been illegal a petrified rifle. The engineered by Vogt purchase for the Geneva Museum burst, but at least he could describe the fossil scientifically and publish the first photo. ... "(> Read )
Spiegel Online, 06/02/2011
As nature invented the spring
"How were birds from dinosaurs? In evolutionary scientists for years debated the issue. A central role is played by the development of the spring." National Geographic " -author Carl Zimmer on a marvel of nature, the scientist is still mystified is. ... " (> Read )
PaloAltoPatch, 26/01/2011
SLAC Scientist Uncovers Secrets of 150 Million-Year-Old Bird
"Using powerful X-rays from Stanford's synchrotron, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Uwe Bergmann has analyzed the chemistry within scientist at Archaeopteryx fossil and feather and found a unique relation to the modern bird. ... "(> Read )
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