The Field Museum on Monday unveiled its Archaeopteryx, one of only about a dozen such specimens ever found and the only one housed in a “major natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere.”
The Field Museum on Monday unveiled its Archaeopteryx, one of only about a dozen such specimens ever found and the only one housed in a "major natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere."It’s a relatively tiny fossil. Even so, Julian Siggers, the Field’s president and CEO, has called the Archaeopteryx the museum’s "most significant fossil acquisition since Sue, the T. rex." The fossil specimen arrived in Chicago in 2022.
And it was small too — the Field’s specimen is about the size of a pigeon.In the 19th century, some saw Archaeopteryx remains and couldn’t figure out what it was, with some thinking it might be an angel, according to London’s Natural History Museum.The first specimen was discovered just two years after the publication of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species." A lot of people at the time didn’t believe that animals could evolve.
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