The very old meets the very new as palaeontologists turn to cutting-edge technology to help unearth the mysteries of the past. NO ONE KNEW the fossilised archaeopteryx that arrived at Stanford University in December 2009 would turn out to be one of the most significant palaeontological finds ever. When the first of these 150-million-year-old dino-birds was pulled out of the ground in Solnhofen, Bavaria, in 1861, Germany was still a collection of autonomous kingdoms and principalities.
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