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FEDUCCIA: People have accepted that these filamentous structures—
dino fuzz—represent proto-feathers. But these things do not resemble
feathers, and I don't think they have anything to do with feathers. To
me, they look like preserved skin fibers. . . . You can transform bird
scutes [the scales on birds’ feet] into feathers with the application of bone
morphogenic protein. So while people imagining models for the evolu-
tion of feathers feel that filaments must be an intermediate step
between scales and feathers, you really don’t need that stage. . . . When
we see actual feathers preserved on specimens, we need to carefully
determine if we are looking at secondarily flightless birds that have
retained feathers and only superficially resemble dinosaurs, or if the
specimens are in fact related to dinosaurs. That's a difficult issue to

An evolutionist
deception: a
dinosaur tail
mounted onto
a bird body.

At a press conference held by the National Geographic
Association in Washington in October 1999, the combi-
nation of dinosaur and bird feathers in the
Archaeoraptor fossil was described as “a genuine
missing link in the complex link connecting dinosaurs
to birds.” But it is now known that evolution was not
responsible for this connection, but glue. This forgery
was even used by satirical magazines.