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Re: four winged Archaeopteryx



It is possible that the reduction of the tail caused
loss of the distal caudals directly

There is embryological evidence against this. Extant birds have 18 to 23 tail vertebrae. It's just that most of them end up in the synsacrum and the pygostyle; the latter consists of lots of _small_ vertebrae.