“Le petit fossile duveteux qui a finalement prouvé au monde que les oiseaux sont des dinosaures” a commencé à pleurer, et a failli tomber par terre.

In this segment from “The Story of Birds”, author Steve Brusatte delves into the moment when paleontologists obtained definitive proof suggesting birds originated from dinosaurs — a feathery fossil unearthed in China.

Archaeopteryx was discovered in the 1860s and provided the first hint that birds and dinosaurs may be related.(Image credit: meen_na/Getty Images)