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Confuciusornis Sanctus

Period: Cretaceous

Age: 125 million years

Region: China

The theory of evolution maintains that birds are descended from small, carnivorous therapod
dinosaurs, in other words, from a species of reptile. The fact is, however, that both anatomical
comparisons between birds and reptiles and also the fossil record completely refute this claim.
The fossil in the pictures belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Confuciusornis sanctus,
first discovered in China in 1995.

This 125-miilion-year fossil Confuciusornis provides very important information about this life
form. Confuciornis has no teeth, and its beak, feathers and skeletal structure have the same fea-
tures as present-day birds. It also has the structure needed to support the tail feathers in flight.

To summarize, Confuciornis, which lived at approximately the same time as Archæopteryx, bears
a very close resemblance to birds living today. Confuciusornis definitively refutes the scenario of
the evolution of birds.

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