Pictorial Cancellation on Fossils from Germany..

 

 

A pictorial Cancellation will be provided on Dinosaur park at Munchehagen, Germany featuring Dinosaur on 30 July 2011. It is  Germany's largest outdoor dinosaur park.The footprints of  huge prehistoric creatures can be found  in the park with over 200 full size dinosaur reconstructions.

Pictorial Cancellation on prehistoric  bird ARCHAEOPTERYX 

On August 11^th   a pictorial cancellation will be provided   featuring the prehistoric  bird ARCHAEOPTERYX   at the post office  Eichstätt , Germany. The pictorial  postmark is available from Mr. Wolfgang Beyer Member of Staff   from the  Philatelic group ArGe ZOOLOGIE . 

 

 

Archaeopteryx (“original bird” or “first bird”) is the earliest and most primitive bird known.

The first specimen was found in 1891, almost coincident with Darwin’s publication of Origin of Species two years later, and ten more have since been found.

Archaeopteryx was about the size of a crow with short, broad wings and a long tail. While its feathers were similar to those of living birds, it had jaws lined with sharp teeth, three fingers ending in curving claws, and a long bony tail, in stark contrast to modern birds.

Archaeopteryx’s many features of dinosaurs such as the jaws with teeth, tiny forelimbs with three claws, a long tail and a head covered with scales while body, wings and tail were covered with feathers as in a bird provides strong evidence of the dinosaur ancestry of birds, and, more generally, of the validity of the Theory of Evolution.

Pictorial Cancellation on Bird

 

 

Mr Wolfgang Beyer may be contacted for all above cancellations email : Wolfgang.Beyer1@polizei.sachsen.de

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