RE: Archaeopteryx had black feathers

["Michael Lange" <Michael.Lange@gmx.ch>]

Because the name was given, by the German Palaeontologist Hermann von Meyer, to 
the feather, which was found first!

Michael
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> Datum: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:37:41 -0700
> Von: "Tiffany Miller" <MissRaptor@deadraccoon.com>
> An: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Betreff: RE: Archaeopteryx had black feathers

> How do they know the isolated feather belongs to Archaeopteryx?
> 
> ~Tiffany Miller
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
> Ben Creisler
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:58 AM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Archaeopteryx had black feathers
> 
> From: Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
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> 
> A new online article in Nature Communications:
> 
> 
> Ryan M. Carney, Jakob Vinther, Matthew D. Shawkey, Liliana D'Alba &
> Jörg Ackermann (2012)
> New evidence on the colour and nature of the isolated Archaeopteryx
> feather.
> Nature Communications 3 (637)
> doi:10.1038/ncomms1642  <a href="javascript:" 
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> http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n1/full/ncomms1642.html
> 
> 
> 
> Archaeopteryx has been regarded as an icon of evolution ever since its
> discovery from the Late Jurassic limestone deposits of Solnhofen,
> Germany in 1861. Here we report the first evidence of colour from
> Archaeopteryx based on fossilized colour-imparting melanosomes
> discovered in this isolated feather specimen. Using a phylogenetically
> diverse database of extant bird feathers, statistical analysis of
> melanosome morphology predicts that the original colour of this
> Archaeopteryx feather was black, with 95% probability. Furthermore,
> reexamination of the feather's morphology leads us to interpret it as
> an upper major primary covert, contrary to previous interpretations.
> Additional findings reveal that the specimen is preserved as an
> organosulphur residue, and that barbule microstructure identical to
> that of modern bird feathers had evolved as early as the Jurassic. As
> in extant birds, the extensive melanization would have provided
> structural advantages to the Archaeopteryx wing feather during this
> early evolutionary stage of dinosaur flight.
> 
> 
> 
> News stories:
> 
> http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-winged-dinosaur-archaeopteryx-flight.html
> 
> 
> http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/01/archaeopteryx
> 

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