Dave Hone posted a link list to his own posts with Archaeopteryx in them. A very handy thing to have, as Dave has the best archive of online photos of the beast. What he doesn’t have is close-ups of the Berlin specimen, so I thought today a good day to post a few. I recently was able to snap a few shots when Jingmai O’Connor was visiting Berlin and inspecting it – I do not wish to bother the curators for opening the safe and pulling the lil’ bird out when I do not have a real research interest.
Here’s a total; detail shots below the fold. As always, click through for larger size, or yell in comments/email for full size!
“What he doesn’t have is close-ups of the Berlin specimen”. Actually I do, they’re just on film and I haven’t dug them out or scanned them or got permission to publish them. Yet.
Still, great to see these, thanks for sharing. It’s been too long since I’ve seen this one.
So those photos are not in your online archive, are they?
No but they are something I do have… Depends how you want to read that second sentence I guess.
I guess I want to read it the way I wrote it: referring to your posts
It’s almost like scientists are really pedantic about exact meanings and context…..
really?
now why would we?