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CONFUCIUSORNIS
Age: 120 million years
Period: Mesozoic Age, Cretaceous
Location: Liaoning Province, China
The theory of evolution claims that birds evolved from small therapod dinosaurs—in other
words, from reptiles. The fact is, however, that anatomical comparisons between birds and
reptiles refute this claim, as does the fossil record.
The fossil pictured belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Confuciusornis, the first spec-
imen of which was discovered in China in 1995. Confuciusornis bears a very close resemblance
to present-day birds and has demolished the scenario of bird evolution that evolutionists have
proposed for decades.
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