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Original - Archaeopteryx is a transitional fossil, illustrating aspects of the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. This specimen, known as the Berlin specimen, is the most complete of the ten known.
Edit 1 More evenly lit.
Reason
It's the Berlin archaeopteryx. To anyone interested in palaeontology, this is an amazing image. It's also highly suited to Darwin year.
Articles this image appears in
Archaeopteryx, Solnhofen limestone, Museum für Naturkunde, Camadas de Guimarota, Bird

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Creator
Raimond Spekking, who also has some other brilliant photographs of fossils. I'd suggest that all of them would be worthy FPs.

No consensus MER-C 05:23, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]