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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

Eoalulavis, established to be 120 million years old

contrary, they proved that modern birds and certain Archaeopteryx-like
species lived together. Some of these birds, such as Confuciusornis and
Archaeopteryx, went extinct, and only a limited number came down to
the present day.

One bird fossil, found in China and given the name Jeholornis, had
a long tail. This led some evolutionists to portray it as evidence that
birds had evolved from dinosaurs. The fact is, however, that many
species in nature may share similar features with another species, and
not even evolutionists can build an ancestral links among most of them.
The octopus’s eye, for instance, bears a close resemblance to the
human eye. Yet not even evolutionists suggest that there is any evolu-
tionary link between the two. Like birds or bats, flies also have wings,
yet it is impossible, even for evolutionists, to propose an evolutionary
link among them. For that reason, the fact that there are certain similar-
ities between dinosaurs and birds cannot be used as evidence that the
former are the ancestors of the latter.

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