{"id":10054,"date":"2011-08-18T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/08\/18\/that-new-archaeopteryx-researc\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:24:10","slug":"that-new-archaeopteryx-researc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/that-new-archaeopteryx-researc\/","title":{"rendered":"That New Archaeopteryx Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a paper came out with research indicating that <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em>, the famous feathered fossil, may not be on the bird lineage after all.  This paper was discussed briefly in the blogosphere, but I was fairly unsatisfied with the level of treatment it received.  The research is a little difficult to understand unless you are a specialist in the field.  Essentially, a different species (not <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em>) was being studied, and in so doing, it knocked <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em> off the phylogenetic branch on which it has been resting tenuously in recent years.  The other fossil species didn&#8217;t displace <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em>.  It&#8217;s just that when carrying out the study a re-evaluation of the way we place these fossils in relation to each other on an evolutionary tree shifted around and <em>Archaeopteryx<\/em> got moved.<\/p>\n<p>You can see why this could be complicated.  You can also see why I wrote a whole blog post explaining it in a way that anyone can understand and appreciate this new research.  The post is this month&#8217;s contribution to 10,000 Birds: <a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/what-happened-with-archaeopteryx.htm\">What happened with Archaeopteryx?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please go read it! Comment! Ask questions!  Yell at me for getting Cladists wrong (cladists tend to hate me!) Tweet it! (it is a post about birds, after all).  If I don&#8217;t get a lot of activity over on my 10,000 Birds posts, I&#8217;m afraid they won&#8217;t give me the nice binoculars they promised me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/what-happened-with-archaeopteryx.htm\">Go check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a paper came out with research indicating that Archaeopteryx, the famous feathered fossil, may not be on the bird lineage after all. This paper was discussed briefly in the blogosphere, but I was fairly unsatisfied with the level of treatment it received. The research is a little difficult to understand unless you are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/that-new-archaeopteryx-researc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That New Archaeopteryx Research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ca","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}