@troodonvet Here! https://t.co/TAOqA1rSe2
My understanding is that it was somewhat transitional, but still mostly opposed (unlike dromaeosaurs and such), and that there has been great debate about whether it was opposed or not.
@Himmapaan That being said, the description of the most recently described specimen actually argues that it's at least as likely that the toe could have been *more* reversed than what most folks have been saying! (https://t.co/torejx7ntc)
One of our most viewed PeerJ articles of 2018 in Paleontology and Evolutionary Science:
The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria https://t.co/czn0ZxNqYu
More here: https://t.co/gSOgoVWWAH https://t.co/frO5LGBjS4
Y para los interesados... ¡aquí los enlaces a los cuatro artículos! https://t.co/RnFWvdX4K2 https://t.co/e2XJ4unj53
https://t.co/pjKTR9gEFs https://t.co/vkTSMbQ8aO https://t.co/C3WHLBlh68
The new specimen forcing a radical rethink of Archaeopteryx via @guardianscience https://t.co/mMhxwsQZSj
Read the full paper published in PeerJ here https://t.co/kGej7e3npy https://t.co/hXl5oDS0Yp