Re: Archaeopteryx 150-year commemoration update

["Spike Ekins" <spikey@privat.dk>]

At last you´re beginning to understand ... although Ankylosaurus was always 
brown!

Spike.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Krentz" <ddkrentz@charter.net>
To: <bh480@scn.org>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: Archaeopteryx 150-year commemoration update


> Apparently Archaeopteryx was blue.  Just like Stegosaurs were green with 
> orange plates and Ankylosaurus is orange.
>
> D
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:20 PM, bh480@scn.org wrote:
>
> > From: Ben Creisler
> > bh480@scn.org
> >
> > The big 150-year commemoration of the discovery of Archaeopteryx is this
> > August. Here's a bit of an update.
> >
> > The Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin has a special exhibit that starts on
> > June 18, 2011.
> > Since 2007, the actual fossil specimen of the famous Berlin Archaeopteryx
> > (instead of a facsimile) has been on display. During the new exhibit, the
> > counterslab and the original fossil feather first mentioned by Hermann 
> > von
> > Meyer will also be on display for a short time. A short description of 
> > the
> > exhibit can be found at this link:
> >
> > In German:
> > http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellung-federf
> > lug.html
> >
> > In English:
> > http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/ausstellungen/sonderausstellung-arc
> > haeopteryx.html?Fsize=0&Lightversion=1%3Ftypo%3D0%3Ftypo%3D1%3Ftypo%3D0%3Fty
> > po%3D2%3Ftypo%3D0
> >
> > A news article in German about the commemoration:
> >
> > http://www.zeit.de/2011/25/Vogel-Archaeopteryx
> >
> > A press release by the German Ministry of Finance about the commemorative
> > Euro coin and airmail postage stamp:
> >
> > http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/nn_54/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Bri
> > efmarken/2011/06/20110616-PM28.html?__nnn=true
> >
> > A story about the coin was posted on the DML back in February with a link
> > to a photo of the winning design:
> > http://dml.cmnh.org/2011Feb/msg00044.html
> > http://witmerlab.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/evolution-icon-archaeopteryx-turns
> > -150-this-year-how-are-we-celebrating/
> >
> >
> > Although the German press release mentions a 55 Cent stamp designed by
> > Julia Warbanow, I can't find a link to an image of the final official
> > choice to be released on August 11, 2011.
> > Different proposed designs for the stamp can be seen at:
> > http://www.muellerweiland.de/archaeopteryx/
> >
> > For a look at different stamps depicting Archaeopteryx over the years, 
> > see:
> >
> > http://www.birdtheme.org/mainlyimages/index.php?spec=2812&code=204
> >
> >
> >
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