Quack!
Posted on 09/25/2009 1:14:41 AM PDT by Natufian
The discovery of five remarkable new fossils has confirmed that birds evolved from dinosaurs, Chinese scientists claimed tonight.Because the fossils - unearthed in rock formations in north-eastern China - are older than previous discoveries of similar creatures, the find adds weight to the theory that birds descended from predatory dinosaurs.The fossils all have feathers or feather-like structures. The clearest and most striking of the specimens can be seen to have four wings, extensive plumage and profusely feathered feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Four wings? A boon to the fried chicken industry.
Quack!
Dinosaurs - Tarred (and feathered)
Probable hoax.
The Chinese have become very scrutable in that startling finds like this are often faked.
Define ‘often’.
Dino Hoax Was Mainly Made of Ancient Bird, Study SaysHillary Mayell
for National Geographic News
November 20, 2002
The principal part of a famously fabricated dinosaur fossil is an ancient fish-eating bird, scientists report.
The Archaeoraptor fossil was introduced in 1999 and hailed as the missing evolutionary link between carnivorous dinosaurs and modern birds. It was fairly quickly exposed as bogus, a composite containing the head and body of a primitive bird and the tail and hind limbs of a dromaeosaur dinosaur, glued together by a Chinese farmer.
Buffalo wings half price.
No, wait. Dinosaur wings, extra spicy!
Darwin ping!
This little Dino-bird was first discovered ahile ago. NOVA had a show about some scientists trying to figure out how it used those four wings. If you evry watched the show Prehistoric Park, I forget the guys name, goes back in time to grab a few of these what they called Microraptors.
“Define ‘often’.”
Synonymous with “always”
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