but now we know, on the authority of Professor Owen, that a bird certainly lived during the deposition of the upper greensand; and still more recently, that strange bird, the Archeopteryx, with a long lizard-like tail, bearing a pair of feathers on each joint, and with its wings furnished with two free claws, has been discovered in the oolitic slates of Solenhofen.
baina orain badakigu, Owenen autoritatearen arabera, ziur dela harearri berdearen sedimentazio aldian txori bat bizi zela; eta oraintsuago, txori arraro bat, Archeopteryx-a, juntura bakoitzean bi luma daramatzan saurio antzeko buztanarekin, eta hegoetan bi atzazal libre dituena, aurkitu da Solenhofeneko arbel oolitikoetan.