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 .
For years , skeptics had raised the so-called temporal paradox : there were no feathered dinosaurs older than archaeopteryx , so birds could not have arisen from dinosaurs .
