The Archaeopteryx lithographica discovered in Germany

The Archaeopteryx lithographica discovered in Germany was believed to be the link between the fish and the reptile (See picture on next page). The Sinornothosaurus milleni was the Chinese bird-lizard which had feathers on its body which did not help it fly (see next page). The Mei Long was a fossil which was a feathered dinosaur of small size sleeping with its head under the wings. With younger fossils more changes pointing to the evolutionary patterns of the bird breast bone were seen. Whales had ancestors who were living on the land. Fossils were evidence of evolutionary transitions (Coyne, 57). These forms had been placed between the ancestor and modern animals. The process involved a remodelling of the features in the ancestral animal into those of the new one.