In 1861 , just two years after darwin published origin of species , quarry workers in germany unearthed spectacular fossils of a crow-size bird , dubbed archaeopteryx , that lived about 150 million years ago .
It 's a ...... a study is challenging thoughts about the " early bird " archaeopteryx .
一项最新研究将要颠覆人们对“世界上最早的鸟-始祖鸟”的看法。
The findings , one researcher said , showed that " the transition to physiological and metabolic birds happened well after archaeopteryx . "
研究人员说道,这些发现表明“始祖鸟之后,鸟类的生理机能及新陈代谢转变都发展良好。”
The famous archaeopteryx the first specimen of which resides in the natural history museum in london for example , is one such transitional fossil between the reptiles and birds .
比如,伦敦自然历史博物馆第一个标本物种、著名的始祖鸟化石就是爬行动物和鸟类之间的过渡物种化石。
In the world of palaeontology we uncovered a set of enormous eyes that roamed the oceans , found lucy the hominid was not a swinger and that archaeopteryx is once again top of the evolutionary bird tree .