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[metherion]

So, I just went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and saw the Archaeoptryx exhibit. It was quite good, with the piece itself at the end but a large quantity of other lithographic limestone fossils.

I later realized that now I have seen 2 out of the 10 extant fossils of Archaeoptyrx.

So, I am about to go to dinner but if anyone wants to ask me stuff I'll be glad to answer it

Metherion

 

[Hespera]

did ya bust up them works of the devil?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

So, I just went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and saw the Archaeoptryx exhibit. It was quite good, with the piece itself at the end but a large quantity of other lithographic limestone fossils.

I later realized that now I have seen 2 out of the 10 extant fossils of Archaeoptyrx.

So, I am about to go to dinner but if anyone wants to ask me stuff I'll be glad to answer it

Metherion

Where are the other ten? I thought there were eleven fossils, actually.
How big is it? I've always imagined it to be as big as a human, but Wikipedia tells me it's tiny! So much for the infallibility of Wiki.

 

[Split Rock]

did ya bust up them works of the devil?

He could have at least denounced it as a FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!111

 

[metherion]

Someone apparently DID come in and start spouting about how he didn't believe the timeline after I left and my dad was still in the exhibit.

Apparently there is 1 in Houston, 1 in London, one in the Teyler (I think) Museum in Holland, and 7 in Germany, with one in the Naturkunde that I've seen and one in the hands of a private collector somewhere. At least, according to the little wall stand thing.

They're rather twisted in death, but the junks of marble could not have been more then 4 foot (about 1.3 meters-ish) on a side (including all the empty space around it so the thing itself was probably less then 3 feet/~90cm), but it's thought the fossils are of juveniles, so the full grown size is anyone's guess.

Metherion