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Dino-Era Bird Fossil Found; One of Oldest Known
news.nationalgeographic.com — A fossil of a new species of dinosaur-era bird found in China is one of the oldest ever discovered, experts say in a new study. The new bird, called Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, or "the dawn of the Confucius bird," is predated only by the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, which lived during the Jurassic period.
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So, the evolutionary model says that dinosaurs evolved into birds, huh? And now science inconveniently provides evidence to the contrary. How could there be fully-formed birds in a dinosaur era if all birds evolved from dinosaurs? We're not talking about something half-bird, half-dinosaur halfway in between the long evolutionary journey between dinosaurs and modern birds. This thing was fully formed.
Time to rethink that part of the evolutionary model tree...and all the conclusions based on those assumptions. Dang that science!
And you cannot reference Archaeopteryx as a missing link. Archaeopteryx is nothing but an ancient bird...or a complete fraud.
http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Archaeopteryx_is_a ...
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/environment/NHR/archaeop ...
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/forg ...
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4254news3-24 ...
Now...watch some Digg user insist that evolution from proto-bacteria to human being is still a scientifically-proven fact even in the face of science itself. -
I think it's safe to say that even if dinosaurs ended up evolving into birds, they probably didn't all do so at the same time. So I fail to see how this fossil disproves anything.
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Science will have to rewrite what it knows - like it always does, and it accepts that, unlike religion which says the book says so, and ***** anything else to the contrary
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I will lay odds they will try to make a soup out of it.
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i didnt even know michael douglas was dead yet
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the "bird" looks more like a Rorschach test
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If I may pose a question - why is it assumed that Archaeopterix is an ancestor of modern birds? Could this not have been a distinct species?
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Don't get too emotionally attached to this one. A lot of fossil 'discoveries' in China have been shown to be fakes upon closer scrutiny. There's a good article on the net about this, which I seem to have lost track of, does anyone have it?
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buried, not dinosaur enough.
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How is it a piece in the puzzle of evolution? It says everything is fully developed. In other words it is not a transitional fossil, but builds on the fossil evidence that everything has remained the same.
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Bird news for the win!
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