A phantom on stone from the limestone bed
With the saurian heart and a feathered head
The creature represents popular missing links
It bridges the gap between reptiles and birds.
Believed to be first to claim the Jurassic air
What a majestic witness of world once there
Dinosaur like features teeth, long tail & claws
Then modern bird like flight wings & feathers.
An amazing hybrid of avian and reptilian mark
Together with the features it leaves a hallmark
Teeth for a hunter, wings velvet, wide and long
Archaeopteryx was a prelude to a future song.
Neither quite a dragon, nor quite a merry lark
Instead, a spark of flight in the prehistoric dark
Often called Ur-vogel, implying an original bird
A fascinating manifest of two different worlds.
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