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of birds alive today, Tauraco corythaix importantly, while no birds with teeth
and Opisthocomus hoazin, have claws are alive today, when we look at the fos-
that enable them to grip on to branches. sil record, we see that there was a speci-
Each of these species is wholly a bird, es of bird with teeth that lived at the sa-
with no relation to reptiles. Therefore, me time or later than Archaeopteryx.
the fact that Archaeopteryx had claws on Until very recently in geologic history,
its wings does not substantiate the claim there was a group of birds that could be
that it was a transitional form. called toothed.
Neither do its teeth. Evolutionists In addition, the tooth structure of
were wrong to claim that these teeth we- Archaeopteryx and other toothed birds is
re a reptilian characteristic. In fact, teeth quite different from that of dinosaurs,
are not a typical characteristic of repti- their supposed ancestors. Noted ornitho-
les. Some living reptiles do not have te- logists such as L. D. Martin, J. D. Ste-
eth at all—turtles, for example. More wart and K. N. Whetstone determined
THE EVOLUTION IMPASSE I