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OTHER DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BIRDS AND DINOSAURS
The differences between dinosaurs and birds are not limited to
those discussed earlier. There are many other differences such as the
structures of their teeth and talons, their metabolisms, their skulls, and
their eggs. Birds and reptiles possess entirely different anatomies, spe-
cially created in accord with the vertebrate’s own lifestyle. If a reptile is
claimed to have turned into a bird, then this must have taken place in-
stantaneously, in a manner reminiscent of fairy-tale transformations.
Stage-by-stage transformation cannot perfect a living thing, as evolu-
tionists would have you believe. On the contrary, it will merely make the
offspring less efficient. However, it is impossible to any perfect living
thing to emerge in a subsequent generation by some chance re-arrange-
ment of its genetic structure.
Alan Feduccia emphasizes that there are a great many problems
with the claims that dinosaurs evolved into birds:
It’s biophysically impossible to evolve flight from such large bipeds
with foreshortened forelimbs and heavy, balancing tails. Exactly the
wrong anatomy for flight. 97

Toe Structure
Alan Feduccia and Dr Julie Nowicki, both from University of North
Carolina, recently studied the development of ostrich eggs. Examining
the forelimbs of the ostrich embryos they examined, Feduccia and his
team revealed that birds and theropod dinosaurs have different toe se-
quences, for which reason birds’ wings could not have evolved from the
forefeet of dinosaurs.
Feduccia’s statements and the problems this poses for evolutionists
are described on the American Development of Science Society’s web-
site:
“Whatever the ancestor of birds was, it must have had five fingers, not
the three-fingered hand of theropod dinosaurs,” Feduccia said.
“Scientists agree that dinosaurs developed ‘hands’ with digits one, two
and three -- —Our studies of ostrich embryos, however, showed con-