Page 244 - The Origin of Birds and Flight

Fossils depicted as so-called feathered dinosaurs are far younger than the well known
Archaeopteryx. This, the earliest known flying bird on Earth, is around 150 million years old,
and had exactly the same flying ability as birds in our day. Therefore, it’s impossible to portray
these fossils as the as-yet-flightless ancestors of birds. That these supposedly feathered dino-
saurs are much younger than they should be represents one of the insoluble difficulties facing
evolutionists.
Another fossil that spoils evolutionists’
supposed ancestral relationships: Liaoningornis
The 121-million-year-old fossil Liaoningornis, found
in China in November 1996, was announced in a
Science magazine article by Lianhai Hou, Larry
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Martin and Alan Feduccia. Liaoningornis had a
breastbone to which the flight muscles in modern
birds are attached, and flight muscles permitting
long flight. In other respects, too, this creature was
identical to today’s birds. The only difference was
that it had teeth.
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This showed that, contrary to evolutionist claims, toothed birds are not primitive. Indeed,
Alan Feduccia stated in Discover magazine that Liaoningornis made it impossible for dino-
saurs to represent the origin of birds. 3

Sinornithosaurus Millenii and
Beipiaosaurus Inexpectus
These dinosaur fossils, discovered in China, are
represented as half-bird, half-dinosaur in evolutionist
sources. Chris Sloan, an evolutionist paleontologist
who analyzed the fossils, suggests that the creatures
were unable to fly, but used their wings for balance
when running. According to these claims, these
fossils are of bird predecessors that were as yet
unable to fly. Yet it is a major contradiction to depict
these fossils, which lived some 120 million years
ago, as supposed ancestors.

BPM 1 3-13
One of the fossils most raised in connection with feathered dinosaur claims
was discovered by Dr. Mark Norell, together with a number of Chinese scien-
tists. He gave it the name BPM 13-13, inspired by the Beipiao Palaeontological Museum in
the Liaoning region of China.