Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"]) was a dinosaur with both reptilian features and feathers. It was sometimes regarded as one of Earth's earliest birds (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"]) or a link between reptiles and birds. This was believed until true birds were found fossilised in rock strata below archaeopteryx. (PROSE: Placebo Effect [+]Loading...["Placebo Effect (novel)"]) The Fourth Doctor described the Archaeopteryx as a Dinosaur "doing its very best" to become a bird. (PROSE: The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book [+]Loading...["The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book (novel)"])
Archaeopteryx was first identified by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer when Professor George Challenger was a boy. Challenger described it looking like a turkey and a Komodo dragon. (PROSE: The Found World [+]Loading...["The Found World (short story)"])
Christine Summerfield saw a fossil of a half-human, half-sphinx creature and it reminded her of the famous archaeopteryx fossil in the British Museum. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"])
The Child resembled an archaeopteryx without flesh or feathers. (PROSE: Scary Monsters [+]Loading...["Scary Monsters (novel)"])
Chris Cwej found a fossilised Archaeopteryx in a refrigerator in the Doctor's TARDIS. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"])
On the Silurian Earth in 1993, the Seventh Doctor made cooing noises at an archaeopteryx that landed on his hand. (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"]) However, when the Eighth Doctor saw an archaeopteryx in Antarctica in 12,000,000 BC, he believed it was not real like H. P. Lovecraft's fictional Elder Things. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])
According to Ash Juliandis of the 26th century, archaeopteryx was actually a 20th century hoax that was not discovered until the 22nd century. Someone actually put pigeon bones in a slab of putty and claimed it was a dinosaur with feathers. (PROSE: Down [+]Loading...["Down (novel)"])
