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Solnhofen fossils known as dendrites. Despite their plantlike
outlines, these features are now known to be inorganic struc-
tures caused by a solution of manganese from within the beds
that reprecipitated as oxides along cracks or along bones of
fossils. 154
Another interesting point is that all the fossil "feathered
dinosaurs" were found in China. How could these fossils
have come to light in China, but nowhere else in the world?
And why weren't any feathers or feather shafts found on

these dinosaurs, claimed by evolutionists to be feathered, in
these Chinese formations that could so well preserve even
such a structure as the dino-fuzz? The answer is plain: It's be-
cause they didn't possess any avian feathers. Feduccia writes:
One must explain also why all theropods and other dinosaurs
discovered in other deposits where integument is preserved
exhibit no dino-fuzz, but true reptilian skin, devoid of any
featherlike material (Feduccia 1999), and why typically
Chinese dromaeosaurs preserving dino-fuzz do not normally Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
preserve feathers, when a hardened rachis, if present, would
be more easily preserved. 155
So, what are these creatures, found in China, and pre-
sented as a supposed intermediate form between reptiles and
birds?
Feduccia explains that some of the creatures presented as

"feathered dinosaurs" were extinct reptiles with dino-fuzz,
and that others were true birds:
There are clearly two different taphonomic phenomena in the
early Cretaceous lacustrine deposits of the Yixian and
Jiufotang formations of China, one preserving dino-fuzz fila-

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