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CONFUCIUSORNIS SANCTUS
Age: 120 million years
Period: Mesozoic Age, Cretaceous
Location: Liaoning Province, China
The French scientific journal Science et Vie made the following comment regarding this bird,
now known as Confuciusornis sanctus: "According to Chinese and American palaeontologists ex-
amining the fossil . . . they were dealing with a first class discovery. This flying bird, the same
approximate size as a water rail, is around 157 million years old . . . older than Archæopteryx."
(Jean Philippe Noel, "Les Oiseaux de la Discorde," Science et Vie, No. 961, October 1997, p. 83.)
The significance of this discovery is obvious; the fact that Confuciusornis lived during the same
period as a life form claimed to have been the supposed forerunner of birds—and the fact that it
bears a very close similarity to present-day birds—totally invalidates evolutionists' claims.
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