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n. - Extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones.

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  • This was the archeopteryx, which had feathers like a real bird and yet had teeth in its mouth like the lizard when it lived on earth.
  • One persistent archeopteryx in particular kept attacking their provisions in hopes of stealing one of the smaller brightly wrapped packages of food.
  • Every navigator brought home tidings of new species of animals and of races of men living in parts of the world where the theologians, relying on the statement of St. Paul that...
  • Chicken or the egg? cmon guys ... first bird was archeopteryx .... 150 million years ago .. the ancestor of the chicken ... eggs have been around from 230 million at least.
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