![]() ![]() ![]() (Yet, many evolutionists 3 claim that birds are dinosaurs anyway.)Īlong comes the latest Chinese feathered dinosaur: Xiaotingia zhengi. Though Archaeopteryx has long been the object of a tug-of-war between the dinosaur-camp and bird-camp, it is now commonly accepted as a bird. Evolutionary paleontologists assign it an age of about 150 million years. However, these features occur in other extinct or living birds. Some evolutionists insist the Archaeopteryx is a transitional form because it had teeth, fingers on its wings, and a long tail. Some evolutionists insist the Archaeopteryx is a transitional form because it had teeth, fingers on its wings, and a long tail.Īrchaeopteryx is a fossilized extinct bird with exquisitely developed real feathers identical in preserved microscopic details to those of extant birds. The paper does not describe or picture any distinctive feather characteristics such as rachis and barbs. 1 Paleontologist Xing Xu describes the fossil as “ a new Archaeopteryx-like theropod.” Xu describes the fossil as having “faint feather impressions” and “some faint integumentary impressions,” adding, “Unfortunately, the feathers are too poorly preserved for details of their structure to be apparent.” 2 No one can be certain where the Xiaotingia zhengi specimen came from “because it was purchased from a dealer, but all indications are that it comes from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates from the Late Jurassic, some 155 million years ago,” according to Ohio University’s Dr. Xiaotingia zhengi-the latest so-called feathered fossil in Liaoning-is providing a creative way to draft the Archaeopteryx into the deinonychosaurian part of the dinosaur family. Particularly popular members of the “feathered dinosaur” club often surface in China’s Liaoning Province. ![]() The current wave of dino-bird popularity continues as evolutionary paleontologists strain to see feathers in dinosaur fossils. MSNBC: “ ‘Oldest Bird’ Knocked Off Its Perch”įor over a century evolutionists have intermittently speculated that birds evolved from dinosaurs. ![]()
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