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 11th 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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