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All the specimens of Archaeopteryx found so far lived in a it accelerate in pursuit of prey over the ground. It is also
region of Europe that was reduced to a group of dry islands possible that, like modern chickens, it used them to fly up
surrounded by shallow seas. The islands seem to have had into tall shrubs to roost at night, out of reach of prowling
few trees, and Archaeopteryx probably ate small ground-living hunters. It may have evolved in a region with taller trees and
animals like lizards and insects. But its long, feathery wings used its wings to glide between them. We do not know—but
must have been useful in some way. They may have helped one day, another fossil may solve the riddle.

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