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In a statement in New Scientist, however, Xu Xing says: “The
Archæoraptor is composed of a bird body and a dinosaur tail.” 158 Larry
Martin, the Kansas University expert on fossil birds, maintains that the
Chinese farmers who first discovered the fossils stuck part of a dinosaur
fossil onto a bird fossil: “Once you cut out the dinosaur part, it probably
will be an interesting bird.” 159 He also thinks that the portions of this
fossil may be one of the oldest examples of modern birds.
Zhonghe Zhou and Fucheng Zhang of the Vertebrate Paleontology
and Palaeoanthropology Institute in Beijing and Julia A. Clarke of New
York’s American Museum of Natural History carried out a study
comparing the Archaeoraptor fossil with a prehistoric bird from the
species Yanornis martini. According to the team’s report, in terms of size
and anatomy, this false fossil’s forelegs, fingers and beak tip bore a close
resemblance to the Yanornis martini bird fossil.
In short, Archaeoraptor was a fabrication, used by the press as prop-
aganda for the theory of evolution. This forgery must also be regarded
as an indication of evolutionists’ despair. Not a single intermediate form
fossil has been found for more than a century, and the huge morpholog-
ical differences between fossils that belong to unique species have once
again left evolutionists in a dead end.
As long as Darwinists refuse to face facts, they will continue to cling
to a theory kept on its feet by fraud.

THE DELIBERATE IGNORING OF ARCHAEORAPTOR’S FRAUD-
ULENT NATURE
Dr. Storrs L. Olson, director of the avian department of the famous
Smithsonian Institute in the USA, stated that he had warned National
Geographic beforehand that the Archaeoraptor liaoningensis fossil was a
fake, but that the magazine’s management had completely ignored him.
These statements of Olson’s appeared in an open letter to Peter Raven, a
scientist called on the National Geographic staff: