Chiroptera writes:
Hello, Omnivorous. I hope that you don't mind if I take your very nice story and ruin it by showing how it teaches an important lesson.
Don't mind at all, Chiroptera: I am pleased you found an application for the story beyond its anecdotal fun--makes me feel a little less OT. I agree whole-heartedly with your characterization of Archie as the quintessential transitional.
I might add that John Ostrom was a voice in the wilderness in the 1960s when he picked up Huxley's 19th century ideas about dinosaurs being more like flightless birds than lizards; he also discovered the intimidating Deinonychus, that leaping, slashing raptor that so captivates Hollywood, in 1964, helping to shake off the notion of dinosaurs as lethargic, lumbering lizards, and paving the way for his student, Robert Bakker, to argue for their warm-bloodedness.
BTW, my recollection from chatting with Ostrom is that the Haarlem Archie was actually on display as a pterosaur when he came upon it, though I may be mistaken. He maintained a child-like wonder and excitement about his work into his later years, a trait I have observed in both scientists and artists.