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                                                       Archæopteryx exhibits the
                                                     features of a full-fledged bird:
               1
                                                      1. Its feathers show that it was a
                                                      warm-blooded creature able to
                                        4             fly.
                                                      2. Its bones are hollow, like those
                     2                                of birds living today.
                                                      3. Its teeth represent no evidence
                             5                        that it evolved from reptiles. Many
                                                      toothed bird species lived in the
                                                      past.
                     3                                4. There are bird species living
                                                      today that possess similar claws
                                                      on their wings.
                                                      5. The breastbone was observed
                                                      in the seventh Archæopteryx fos-
                                                      sil found recently. The presence
                                                      of this bone shows that just like
                                                      present-day birds, it possessed
                                                      powerful flight muscles.



            bats, a flying mammal which belongs to a very different family.)
                 However, the seventh Archæopteryx fossil, which was found in
            1992, caused great astonishment among evolutionists. The reason was that
            in this recently discovered fossil, the breastbone that was long assumed by
            evolutionists to be missing was discovered to have existed after all. This
            fossil was described in Nature magazine as follows:
                 The recently discovered seventh specimen of the Archæopteryx preserves a
                 partial, rectangular sternum, long suspected but never previously docu-
                 mented. This attests to its strong flight muscles. 46

                 This discovery invalidated the mainstay of the claims that
            Archæopteryx was a half-bird that could not fly properly.
                 Moreover, the structure of the bird's feathers became one of the most
            important pieces of evidence confirming that Archæopteryx was a flying
            bird in the real sense. The asymmetric feather structure of Archæopteryx is
            indistinguishable from that of birds living today, and indicates that it
            could fly perfectly well. As the eminent paleontologist Carl O. Dunbar
            states, "because of its feathers [Archæopteryx is] distinctly to be classed as a
            bird." 47
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