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DROMAEOSUAR: THE DINOSAUR THAT

EVOLUTIONISTS WERE DETERMINED TO
MAKE THE ANCESTOR OF BIRDS
When the Archaeoraptor fossil, regarded
as the ancestor of birds, was unmasked,
evolutionists next placed their hopes in a
discovered fossil newly discovered in China
and named Dromaeosaur. Thought to have
certain bird-like characteristics, it was proposed as
the ancestor of birds.
In fact, however, this fossil was a typical reptile. It had no wings,
and its forearms were clawed. It had long rear legs and a long tail.
Evolutionists sought to link the creature to birds only because of the
structures resembling feathers on the upper part of its body.
Yet as Feduccia stated, these structures, present in all so-called
feathered dinosaurs, are actually the dino-
fuzz that results from the gradual break-
down and fragmentation of the skin.
For evolutionists to claim that reptiles
evolved into birds, there should be
fossils from reptiles that lived before
Archaeopteryx and which gradually
developed bird-like characteristics. Yet
there is not the slightest evidence of this.