Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Archaeopteryx lithographica - Janee

Read this article and answer the following questions.
1. What was this prehistoric animals name?
2. Why were scientists puzzling over this discovery?
3. What does Archaeopteryx Lithographica mean?
4. Describe what this dinosaur looked like.
5.Why did scientists name this feathered dinosaur Lithographica? Where was it first found?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

1.The name was Archaeopteryx Lithographica.

2.Because it was so amazing to study them.

3.AL means "Ancient wing".

4.The dinosaur looks like a dinosaur with weird feathers and really skiny but fat bird.

5.They called it Lithographica because I guess its graphic.

Donteh said...

1.The prehistoric animals name was Archaeopteryx Lithographic.

2.Scientist were puzzling over this discovery because this animal was both a dinosaur & a bird.

3.Archaeopteryx Lithogeraphica means "acient wing".

4.The Archaeopteryx Lithographica looked like it had sharp feathers with blue and orange feathers.

5.Scientist named this bird dinosaur Lithographica because it is a dinosaur & Lithographica means bird.

Samantha said...

Samantha Part 1

1.This animal's prehistoric name is Archaeopteryx lithographica.

2.Scientists were puzzling over this discovery because it was like a bird and a carnivorous dinosaur.

3.Archaeopteryx lithographica means ancient wing.

Donteh said...

4.The dinosaur looked like a crow.

5. lithographica is named after the famous 150 million-year-old Upper Jarasic. It was found Solnhohen Limestone quarries of Bavaria in southern Germany in which it was first found

Samantha said...

Samantha Part 2

4.The dinosaur looked like a bird and had the structure of a carnivorous dinosaur.

5.Scientists named this feathered dinosaur Lithographica after the famous 150 million year old Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone quarries. It was first found in southern Germany.

Rachel said...

1. This pehistoric animals name is Archaeopteryx lithographica .

2. Because it had feathers like a bird but the skelaton was like a dinosaures.

3. Archaeopteryx lithographica means ancient wing.

4. This dinosaure looked like a giant bird.

5. The scientests named this feathered creature Lithographic after the 150 million-year-old upper Jarasic. It was first found in China.

Peri said...

1. This prehistoric aminals name is Archaeoptryx Lithographica.
2.Scientist were puzzled over this discovery because they cant find out what iype of aminal it is.
3.Archaeopteryx Lithographica means Swedish botanist known as Carolus Linnaeus.
4.This bird looked like it looks like it has the feathers of a bird and a sceloten of a dinosare.
5.They were named that because of what it looked like.