Archaeopteryx

Dr. Wellnhofer is the world’s authority on the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx and he has been so for over thirty years. He has published major studies on many specimens of Archaeopteryx, has curated exhibitions about the Urvogel, written popular accounts, lectured extensively, and participated in media-related interviews. Archaeopteryx is what I like to describe as a “paleontological Mona Lisa”. Its priceless fossils – up to now ten skeletal specimens and a single feather imprint discovered during the last 145 years – have had a t ...