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the August 1986 edi tion of the mag -
a zine Nature, de mol ished the idea
that Archaeopteryx, 75 mil lion years
young er was the fore run ner of all
birds. Its bod i ly struc ture, with hol -
low bones as in all oth er birds, long
wings and tra ces of feath ers on those
wings showed that Protoavis was ca -
pa ble of per fect flight.
N. Hotton of the Smithsonian in -
sti tute de scribes the fos sil thus:
"Protoavis has a well-de vel oped fur -
cu la bone and chest bone, as sist ing
The Protoavis fos sil, es ti mat ed to be 225
flight, hol low bones and ex tend ed mil lion years old, de mol ished the the o ry
wing bones . . . Their ears in di cate that Archaeopteryx, a bird 75 mil lion years
young er than it, was the an ces tor of birds.
that they com mu ni cate with sound,
while di no saurs are si lent." 195
even old er than the first di no saurs
The German bi ol o gists Reinhard
on Earth. This means the ab so lute
Junker and Siefried Scherer de scribe
col lapse of the the o ry that birds
the blow dealt to ev o lu tion ist the ses:
evolved from di no saurs!
"Because Archaeopteryx is 75 mil -
lion years young er than Protoavis, it
emerged that this was a dead end for
PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM
ev o lu tion. Therefore, the idea put
for ward by the pro po nents of cre a - —See Punctuated Model of
tion that there are no in ter me di ate Evolution Myth, The be low.
forms, on ly mo sa ic forms, has been
strength ened. The fact that Protoavis
PUNCTUATED MODEL OF
re sem bles mod ern birds in many
EVOLUTION MYTH, THE
ways makes the gap be tween bird
and rep tile even more ap par ent." 196 When the the o ry of ev o lu tion is
Furthermore, the age cal cu lat ed men tioned, the neo-Darwinist mod -
for Protoavis is so great that this el is still the first the o ry that comes
bird—again ac cord ing to dat ing pro - to mind. (See The Neo-Darwinist
vid ed by ev o lu tion ist sour ces—is Comedy.) However, in the last few

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