Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Fossil Feather

In 1861 there be

First fossil feather that was found

In Solnhofen south Germany,

Discovered buried underground.

Over from what animal grew

This feather very long ago?

Electron microscopes did do

Some close analysis to show -

Owner, an archaeopteryx.

This was a bird like dinosaur,

Ones of the first ones to affix

Feathers on it to help it soar.

Feathering enthusiasm,

The feather is at a museum.