Not for plucking
AROUND 150m years ago, in the late Jurassic period, one of the earliest-known birds lived among the tropical islands in an area of the world that is now Europe. The fossilised remains of Archaeopteryx so struck Charles Darwin that he compared them to the skeletal structure of a small theropod dinosaur, and he concluded that feathers evolved in dinosaurs and that birds were their descendants.
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