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ments, as in the first discovered, so-called ''feathered di-
nosaur'' Sinosauropteryx (a commpsognathid), and one pre-
serving actual avian feathers, as in the feathered dinosaurs
that were featured on the cover of Nature, but which turned
out to be secondarily flightless birds. 156
That is, all the fossils presented as "feathered dinosaurs"
or "dino-birds" belong either to flightless birds like chickens,
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or to reptiles that possess the feature called "dino-fuzz," an or-
ganic structure that has nothing to do with avian feathers.

Clearly, no fossil establishes the existence of an intermediate
form between birds and reptiles. (Besides the above-men-
tioned two basic groups, Feduccia also mentions "the abun-
dant beaked bird Confusiusornis," some enantiornithines, and
a newly identified seed-eating bird called Jeholornis prima,
none of which is a dino-bird.)
Therefore, Prum and Brush's claim in Scientific American

that fossils have proved that birds are dinosaurs is totally
contrary to the facts.

The "Age Problem" that Evolutionists Want

to Hide and the Misconception of "Cladistics"

In all evolutionist articles that fan the flames of the dino-

bird myth, including the one by Richard O. Prum and Alan
Brush in Scientific American, there is one forgotten and even
hidden but very important fact.
The fossils of what they falsely call the "dino-bird" or

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