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LIAONINGORNIS
Age: 140 million years
Period: Mesozoic Age, Cretaceous
Location: Liaoning Province, China
Yet another discovery that invalidates evolutionist claims regarding the origin of birds is the
Liaoningornis fossil shown here. The existence of this bird, around 140 million years of age and
first discovered in China in November 1996, was announced by the ornithologists Lianhin Hou,
and Martin and Alan Feduccia in an article published in Science magazine.
Liaoningornis had a breastbone to which the flight muscles were attached, as in present-day birds.
It was also identical to birds living today in all other respects. The sole difference was that it had
teeth in its jaw. This showed that odontornithes (toothed birds) by no means had the kind of prim-
itive structure claimed by evolutionists. Indeed, in an analysis in Discover magazine Alan
Feduccia stated that Liaoningornis invalidated the claim that dinosaurs constitute the origin of
birds. ("Old Bird," Discover, 21 March 1997.)
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