Archaeopteryx — Full Skeleton
The morning between dinosaur and bird, held in cast.
This cast renders the crow-sized skeleton in its characteristic splayed pose, the long bony tail trailing behind, clawed fingers spread at the leading edge of each wing, the jaws set with small conical teeth. At roughly a twenty-inch wingspan it reads as something caught mid-transition, the reptilian frame and the feathered limb resolved in a single articulated piece.
Each impression of the plumage and the slender bones is hand-finished to carry the fine detail that made the original lithographic limestone famous.
Archaeopteryx lived in the Late Jurassic, roughly 150 million years ago, in what is now southern Germany.
It retained features lost in modern birds, including teeth in its jaws, three clawed fingers on each wing, and a long bony tail.
The first skeletal specimen was described in 1861, two years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and became a celebrated example of a transitional form.
Archaeopteryx — Full Skeleton
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