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HARUN YAHYA

transitional form. Evolutionists are wrong to suggest that these teeth are
a reptilian characteristic. Some modern-day reptiles have teeth, but oth-
ers do not. More importantly, species of toothed birds are not limited to
Archaeopteryx. Though they are no longer alive today, when we look at
the fossil record—at the same period as Archaeopteryx, afterward, or
even at very recent history—we find a separate bird group that we may
refer to as toothed birds.
More important is that the tooth structure of Archaeopteryx and
other birds is very different from that of dinosaurs, these birds’ so-called
ancestors. According to measurements by such well-known ornitholo-
gists as L. D. Martin, J. D. Stewart and K. N. Whetstone, Archaeopteryx
and other birds’ teeth are flat-topped and broad-rooted. On the other
hand, the teeth of the Theropod dinosaurs, claimed to have been the an-
cestors of birds, are irregularly topped and narrow-rooted. 121 The same
researchers also compared the wrist bones of Archaeopteryx and its al-

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