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claim regarding Archaeopteryx was Eoalulavis. This animal was said to be

30 million years younger than Archaeopteryx-in other words, around 120
million years old-and its wing structure can still be seen in slow-flying
birds today. This proved that living things, no different in many ways to
present-day birds, were flying in the skies 120 million years ago.
These data proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Archaeopteryx
and other birds resembling it were not intermediate forms. These fossils

did not demonstrate that different species of bird evolved from one anoth-
er. On the contrary, they proved that various independent bird species not
unlike Archaeopteryx and those alive today lived alongside one another.
In fact, the majority of evolutionists are well aware that Archaeopteryx
cannot be an intermediate form, and that is simply an extinct species of
bird.
Scientists describe such creatures as the platypus as mosaic creatures.

That mosaic creatures do not count as intermediate forms is also accepted
by such foremost paleontologists as Stephen Jay Gould and Niles
Eldredge. 245
The evolutionist magazine Nature described how, with every new
Archaeopteryx fossil discovery, it was realized that the animal cannot have
been half-bird and half-reptile, still unable to fly, but that on the contrary

it was a fully flying bird:
The recently discovered seventh specimen of the Archæopteryx preserves
a partial, rectangular sternum, long suspected but never previously doc-
umented. This attests to its strong flight muscles. 246

Alan Feduccia:
In conclusion, the robust furcula of Archæopteryx would have provided a
suitable point of origin for a well developed pectoralis muscle... thus the
main evidence for Archæopteryx having been a terrestrial, cursorial preda-
tor is invalidated. There is nothing in the structure of the pectoral girdle
of Archæopteryx that would preclude its having been a powered flier. 247
But in Archaeopteryx, it is to be noted, the feathers differ in no way from
the most perfectly developed feathers known to us. 248