http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/15/ancient.birds.ap/index.htmlWow there's so much to comment on here...so let me take it one by one:
Quote:The first detailed look at the ancestor of modern birds -- a grebe-like waterbird that would look normal even today -- was shown off Thursday by scientists who discovered fossil remains in a remote lake bed in China.
Wait...what? We know it's a missing link because it looks like a bird that's around today? BRILLIANT!!! Look at this redneck, he's a missing link from modern man too! Hmmm...maybe a bad example.
Quote:"A world lost for more than 100 million years was being revealed to us," as layers of mud were peeled back like the pages of a book, said Hai-lu You of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.
Ha ha...yes because each layer of dirt mysteriously fell down upon the other after each year. Ya know...cause even though a global flood can do the same thing doesn't matter.
Quote:What they found is being called the missing link on the evolution of birds, a creature that lived in northwest China and is the earliest example of modern birds that populate the planet today.
Again...how is this a "missing link" if it's exactly like a bird today? Doesn't this just make it...a dead bird? If you read the whole article they don't tell you what's different about it. Now if this bird had part fins and part wings...then I'd say...wow looks like a missing link to me. However...all I see is a dead bird...my dog use to bury those too.
Quote:Before the scientists' discovery, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science, the only evidence for this creature -- Gansus yumenensis -- was a single, partial leg discovered in the 1980s.
This is a great example of evolutionists lying to us. We knew this existed because of a single, partial leg. This reminds me of all those other "missing links" with modern man (see my blog for the article). This isn't science...this is dogma.
Quote:"Most of the ancestors of birds from the age of dinosaurs are members of groups that died out and left no modern descendants. But Gansus led to modern birds, so it's a link between primitive birds and those we see today," Lamanna said.
But wait...I thought dinosaurs evolved into birds? How can birds and dinos live together? Also how do we know that "primitive birds" didn't leave descendants? And if evolution is true...we don't really know that do we. I could be a decendent...oh no wait...the earthworms gave birth to me. Good ol punctured equilibrium!
Quote:Previously there was a gap between ancient and modern species of birds, and "Gansus fits perfectly into this gap," added Jerald D. Harris of Dixie State College in Utah.
Again...how? What's the proof this is a "transitional fossil"? They offer no proof that it is different! Also, I have another problem. We have acient birds....and modern birds. THEY ARE ALL BIRDS!!! If anything this is proof of micro-evolution...which is just another name for change in species. If we find one of these alive, and we've found "extinct living fossils" alive before, I'm sure it could reproduce with other birds today. Evolutionists would say, "No they wouldn't." I would ask...how do you know. You are just guessing. And guessing is not science...it's not even dogma. It's like a 900# Ms. Cleo!
Quote:It was about the size of a modern pigeon, but similar to loons or diving ducks, the researchers said. One of the fossils even has skin preserved between the toes, showing that it had webbed feet.
Well well well. After 100 million years we have skin preserved between the toes?! Kinda like how dinosaur blood is preserved for 500 million years or so! This is complete bull people! Also...no difference is pointed out here either!
Quote:"Gansus is the oldest example of the nearly modern birds that branched off of the trunk of the family tree that began with the famous proto-bird Archaeopteryx," said Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania.
Even though Archaeopteryx has been shown to be complete faud. Chinese people are making a killing my finding fossils and glueing feathers on them! *Carlos Mencia's* durrrt durr durrr!!!
Quote:The remains were dated to about 110 million years ago, making them the oldest for the group Ornithurae, which includes all modern birds and their closest extinct relatives. Previously, the oldest known fossils from this group were from about 99 million years ago.
But if they're using carbon "dating" it's probably +/- 50 million years. Using carbon dating you can only go back as far as 50,000 years and that's just the start of carbon's problems!
Quote:The fact that Gansus was aquatic indicates that modern birds may have evolved from animals that originated in aquatic environments, the researchers said.
HA HA HA HA!!! Fish grew wings and then lungs and started flying around!!! HA HA HA!!! We are suppose to swallow this???! Ya know Loons also float in the water...according to their theory...they are modern birds' ancestors too!! Oh wait...they're alive today. They are also turning into a boat!
Quote:"Our new specimens are extremely well preserved, with some even including feathers," Lamanna said. "Because these fossils are in such good condition, they've enabled us to reconstruct the appearance and relationships of Gansus with a high degree of precision. They provide new and important insight into the evolutionary transformation of carnivorous dinosaurs into the birds we know today."
Look at this! They have no proof that dinos evolved into birds. Throughout this article they have changed their theories. First these birds lived WITH dinosaurs. Then they evolved from the water. Now they're evolving from dinosaurs!!! These people dupe themselves all they want. I'm sick that they're being taken seriously.
Quote:The new fossil material "is remarkable for its excellent preservation. ... The new fossils demonstrate that Gansus clearly is a bird that spent much of its life looking for food in water," said Hans-Dieter Sues, associate director for research and collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
That's amazing so do seagulls! How is this good science? Who needed to go to China for this crap? Try New Jersey or NYC.
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