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First Known Bird Fossil Unveiled At Chicago's Field Museum

It's a small fossil of the first known bird, called an Archaeopteryx.

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This fossil, called an Archaeopteryx (pronounced ar-key-AHP-ter-icks), is helping paleontologists study how birds evolved, becoming the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction that even took out Sue and other T-Rexes like her.
This fossil, called an Archaeopteryx (pronounced ar-key-AHP-ter-icks), is helping paleontologists study how birds evolved, becoming the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction that even took out Sue and other T-Rexes like her. (Photo Delaney Drummond/Field Museum )

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CHICAGO (CBS) — It's something out of Jurassic Park, except it's real.

For the first time, a new fossil has just been uncovered. The Field Museum unveiled the new find on Monday.

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It's a small fossil of the first known bird.

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