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theory of evolution—paleontologists archers, who published the results in Na-
Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge ture magazine:
of Harvard University—have acknow-
The Archaeoraptor fossil was announced
ledged that Archaeopteryx was never a as a missing link and purported to be
transitional form but a so-called “mosa- possibly the best evidence since Archa-
ic” creature with several different cha- eopteryx that birds did, in fact, evolve
racteristics. 45 from certain types of carnivorous dinosa-
ur . . . But Archaeoraptor was revealed to
be a forgery in which bones of a primiti-
Archaeoraptor ve bird and a non-flying dromaeosaurid
dinosaur had been combined. . . . We
This fossil is said to have been disco-
conclude that Archaeoraptor represents
vered in China in 2001, but was actually
two or more species and that it was as-
a false construction. The hoax was de-
sembled from at least two, and possibly
tected through detailed analysis by rese- five, separate specimens. . . Sadly, parts
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)