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THE IMAGINARY FEATHERS OF

SINOVENATOR CHANGII
Despite no feathers being encountered
on the 130-million-year-old dinosaur
Sinovenator changii, again discovered in China,
some evolutionists assume it to have been
possibly feathered. The fact that other dinosaur
fossils found in the same region were feathered was
the basis for that assumption. Even though there are no feath-
ers in the fossil, assuming that it had them and thus concluding that
dinosaurs are definitely the ancestors of birds is not, of course, a scien-
tific approach.
The feathers on the other dinosaur fossils found in the Yixian
region are also questionable. As you have already seen, many scientists
agree that the structures on these dinosaurs are not actually feathers at
all.
No potential feathered dinosaur that has been proposed is beyond
doubt. Even if certain feathery structures are encountered in dinosaur
fossils, it’s still not possible to establish with certainty whether these
were real feathers or are just the extensions of ordinary reptile scales.
As already set out, prominent evolutionists like Feduccia maintain that
these structures are collagen fibers and that regarding them as feathers
is a serious mistake. 209 In 1997, as a result of observations, it was
discovered that the Sinosauropteryx, announced with great media
fanfare as a feathered dinosaur only the year before, had in fact no
feather-like structures at all. 210
Even if feathered dinosaurs did exist, that would still constitute
no evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Birds’ feathers are
completely unique, and there is no evidence that they are evolved from
any other structures.