Archaeopteryx, a Canadian outdoor clothing brand, was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 1989. Its parent company owns Canadian sports brand Arc‘teryx, French mountain outdoor cross-country brand Salomon (salomon) and American tennis equipment brand Wilson (Wilson), and its products are all over clothing and footwear, tennis equipment, skiing equipment, sports watches, treadmills and so on.

brand source: Arc'teryx's name and trademark pattern come from Archaeopteryx, the earliest bird known to mankind, and the pattern image is based on "Berlinspecimen" discovered in Berlin around HMN188, which is the most complete archaeopteryx fossil so far. Therefore, Arc'teryx brand is generally called "Archaeopteryx" in Chinese, commonly known as "bird", "bird" or "Canadian bird" to distinguish it from another American brand Osprey, American bird, which uses bird pattern trademark.