Current Affairs - International - Discussion

Researchers in Germany have unearthed a new bird-like Dinosaur in Bavaria, Germany and named it as "Alcmonavis Poeschli". The lead author of the study is Oliver Rauhut from Ludwig-Maximilians University's (LMU) Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. This new study is published in the journal called eLife Sciences which described Alcmonavis Poeschli as "the most bird-like bird discovered from the Jurassic". For the first time, it was discovered in 1861 as Archaeopteryx which was a small feathered dinosaur around the size of a crow. It lived in marshland around 150 million years ago and was the named as the oldest flying bird. The scrutiny of the rock formations in the German region of Bavaria was conducted by the Paleontologists from Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich and the University of Fribourg.