Archaeopteryx lithographica

Here is the famous first bird, Archaeopteryx. Here depicted as a mainly ground-dwelling animal, like a tinamou or a rail. Michael Habib has recently suggested that, because Archaeopteryx's limb ratios and feather structure are most similar to ground dwelling and flightless island birds, it probably was on its way to evolving flightlessness, not flight. This was one of the things that made me want to illustrate Archaeopteryx as rail or tinamou-like.