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from Prum and Brush and other
proponents of the "dino-bird" in
thinking that the theory of evolu-

tion is not clear on this matter.
He refuses to give any credence
to the hype over the dino-
bird, deliberately pre-
sented as a fact, without
evidence. myth.
Or nit ho lo gist Alan Fe duc cia op po ses the "di no-bird"
He wrote an article

in the October 2002 issue of The
Auk, a periodical published by the American
Ornithologists' Union and which serves as a forum for highly
technical discussions of ornithology. His article, "Birds are
Dinosaurs: Simple Answer to a Complex Problem," explains
that the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, avidly sup-
ported ever since John Ostrom first proposed it in the 1970s, Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
rested on no scientific evidence. Feduccia also gave a detailed
account of how such a theory was impossible, and explained

a very important fact concerning the dino-birds said to have
been found in China: It is not clear that the structures found
on the fossil reptiles, presented as feathered dinosaurs, are
feathers at all. On the contrary, there is much evidence that
this so-called "dino-fuzz" has no relation to feathers. Feduccia
writes:

Having studied most of the specimens said to sport
protofeathers, I, and many others, do not find any credible evi-
dence that those structures represent protofeathers. Many

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