We know some dinosaurs had feathers but there
remains plenty of debate over whether prehistoric birds such as Archaeopteryx
could actually take to the air and fly. A new study in Scientific Reports goes
some ways to answering that question with the discovery of new,
125-million-year-old bird from central Spain. The exceptionally well preserved
fossil found in limestone from the Lower Cretaceous period has an intricate
arrangement of the muscles and ligaments that controlled the main feathers of the
wing of an ancient bird – the oldest occurrence of connective tissue in
association with flight feathers of birds. Guillermo Navalón, a doctorate
candidate at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and lead author of the
report, said he was so surprised how this ancient bird looked so similar to
what we might find in our backyards. Oct.8 http://news.discovery.com/animals/fossil-could-settle-debate-over-flight-in-earliest-birds-151008.htm
To
understand the results of this scientific research let us go back to the April
4 lunar eclipse. A chart for the eclipse at Bristol,UK is shown here. Notice
that the luminaries align with the meridian as part of a T-square with Uranus-Pluto.
Both Uranus and Pluto are de-structuring
agents that, while operating in very different ways, both clear away the old to
make way for the new. "Similar to a snake shedding its skin,"
astrologer Howard Sasportas noted, "something pushes at us from deep
within, impels us to move beyond old or outworn phases of life and leads the
way to further growth and evolution." With Uranus it is usually the carpet
swiftly pulled out from underneath us. While Pluto, as Sasportas wrote,
"makes sure that we let go by obliterating the old form entirely, until
there is nothing left. Demanding that a cycle end and a new one begins, Pluto
leaves us with little choice other than to change or die." [1]
Here the
eclipse Moon [14li] is conjunct Alogorab. Delta (δ) Corvus, Algorab, is a star
on the right wing of the Raven. When we combine this information with the
understanding that the Uranus-Pluto
square is about “growth and evolution” we can see why the research was about how prehistoric
birds such as Archaeopteryx evolved and took to the air to fly.
How can we be sure? Well if we just progress the eclipse chart to Oct.8, the date of the
news, we find the eclipse T-square once again triggered by the progressed
meridian implying that this was one date when such results would be out.
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