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ARCHAEOPTERYGIFORMES

Archaeopteryx is a fossil discovered from the stratum of the (about 150,000,000 years before) in 1860 in the Jurassic of the German barber rear district. It had the characteristics of reptiles such as a hand with the nail, the tail which it had a long which went, the chin with the tooth of the bone, and the imprint of the feather which was the characteristic of birds stayed on three fingers. It had been the next year when Darwin announced the theory of evolution in "The Origin of Species", and this discovery attracted attention as an animal to bury reptiles and the missing link (a missing chain) with the bird in. And the biologist Thomas Hackthree that supported the theory of evolution thought that the bird evolved from Theropoda because Archaeopteryx resembled a frame of small carnivorous dinosaur Compsognathus closely.

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