Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for June 09, 2023

Apter him!

He could have just said its a wingless bird with hairy feathers.

only a 19 point word

Correct me if I’m wrong here. As I understand it Archaeopteryx is the most mispronounced word in all of archeology…..Ar-kee-op-trix.

As a linguist, I appreciate the joke here. Think of the origins of the letters of the alphabet.

I shorten him to Asterisk.

I had no idea they could run so fast.

From the archaeopteryx we get the road runner…

Apteryx – [noun] nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order ApterygiformesArchaeopteryx – Archaeopteryx was roughly the size of a raven and lived in the Late Jurassic.

Left over letters spell platypus.

“B,C,D and Z”

But does he know he’s an apteryx?

Work J and Q in there and you’ve got a real winner.

This must be the Apteryx’s first appearance.