Archeopteryx dinosaurs fly like pheasants

According to a new study, the famous winged Archeopteryx can fly.

An international research team used strong X-rays to look inside the bone of the species, showing that they are nearly empty, like modern birds.

According to scientists, this creature flies like a pheasant, flying short distances.

Archeopteryx flew like a pheasant.

it attracted attention from the first fossils found in the 1860s.

Half a half-dinosaur bird, this animal is about the same size as an evil bird, with its wings covered with feathers, sharp teeth and long bony tail.

After sweeping Archeopteryx's fossils in a particle accelerator called synchrotron , the researchers discovered that their wings were similar to modern birds flapping their wings to fly short distances or to fly up.

Principal researcher Dennis Voeten from the European Synchrotron radioactivity facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, said: 'Archeopteryx seems to have been optimized for random active flight'.

He told BBC News: 'We think there's something like pheasant and quail . If they have to fly to evade beasts, they will have to fly very fast, often followed by a very short horizontal flight and then they will run away. '

The question of whether Archeopteryx lives on the ground, flies or can fly has been the subject of debate since Darwin.

Steve Brusatte, from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has nothing to do with this study, saying that this is the best proof that this animal is capable of flying.

The Munich specimen of the Archeopteryx fossil.

He said: 'I think this case is now closed. Archeopteryx is at least able to fly short distances. Surprisingly, putting a fossil set on a synchrotron eyebrow could reveal so many things about how the real beast worked when it was alive. '

Archeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now southern Germany. Although once thought to be the first bird, experts now consider this animal to be a y.

Archeopteryx flew about 150 million years ago, suggesting that the flight of dinosaurs evolved earlier.

Scientists think that there are probably many methods of dinosaur flight testing before appearing the way of flying modern birds.

Dr. Martin Röper, curator of Archeopteryx and co-researcher said: ' We know that the area around Solnhofen in southeastern Germany was once a tropical archipelago, and such an environment seems to be very fond. suitable for continuous travel on the island or flight away '.