The Archeopteryx is a cross-bred sort of animal, half snake and half bird. I would like to have been around and watched this interesting event happen. I find it hard to conceive of such a thing. But evidently the bird didn't. Nor the snake.
The front half of the Archeopteryx is powered by two feeble wings on which it flops disconsolately, unable to leave the ground. The rear end of this creature foils this - it trails out along the terrain, making like a tail-heavy plane trying to get air borne. This is probably the origin of that popular expression: "It's sure draggin' today."
This mixed up snake-bird was a prominent political figure of the paleozoic age. Its direct descendandant is the mugwump of the present day; that well-known beast so called because of its habit of sitting straddle of the fence. (cf. Dean Acheson).
It is impossible to determine the sex of an archeopteryx from casual observation. And to try and cop a close-up view would brand you a very fool-hardy schnook indeed. The safest way, if you must know this, is to obtain the information from his driver's license. Although it is scarcely worth while going to all that trouble as this animal, like the mule, is doubtless a hybrid, or neuter.
It might be very amusing to a dianetician to audit the Archeopteryx. He should have some pre-natal memories that would be dillies!
I thank you. Next lesson - Tyrannosaurous Rex.
Data entry by Judy Bemis