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Until the 1990s, the fact that Archaeopteryx lacked a sternum, or
breastbone, was viewed as the most important evidence that it could not
fly. (The breastbone, to which are attached the muscles necessary for
flight, is found in front of the rib cage. This bone exists in all modern
birds, flying or flightless, and even in bats, mammals that belong to a
completely different order.)
However, the seventh Archaeopteryx fossil, discovered in 1992,
disproved this argument. That fossil did contain a sternum, which
evolutionists had for so long imagined did not exist. 124 This newly
discovered fossil was described in Nature magazine:

Archaeopteryx has a great many features in common with present-day birds:

* Feathers
* A furcula or wishbone
* Hollow bones
* Chest cavity
* Pelvis and legs

Archaeopteryx possesses all the features that a flying bird requires. The toothed jaw and
claws, which it also possesses, do not make it an intermediate form, as evolutionists
claim. These merely show that it is a different species of bird.

Archaeopteryx skeleton A bird skeleton