Spectacular Fossil Shows a 120-Million-Year-Old Bird With a Highly Impractical Tail

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 17 September 2021 | CARLY CASSELLA

[billorites]

Apparently, 120 million years ago somebody liked big butts.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I thought the title was about Mazzie Hirono.

[Olog-hai]

“A female bird would look at a male with goofily burdensome tail feathers and think, ‘Dang, if he’s able to survive even with such a ridiculous tail, he must have really good genes.’” …

No, because birds even back then acted on instinct and did not think.

[Kevmo]

The Peacock strategy mixed with long tails for jumping from branch to branch like squirrels. Nothing impractical about it.

[lee martell]

An early version of style over substance;
i.e. ‘Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful!”

[TChad]

Yuanchuavis

[CivilWarBrewing]

Ever see a ROADRUNNER? (Close relative of the VELOCIRAPTOR in my opinion):

[Red Badger]

[Pilgrim's Progress]

>>>The Peacock strategy mixed with long tails for jumping from branch to branch like squirrels. Nothing impractical about it.<<<

Normally we think, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,” meaning that we get saving faith from hearing/reading the Bible, God’s word. But it is just as true that “faith cometh by hearing . . .”

If you listen enough to evolutionists, you gain faith in it as a religion (which is really all it is). It takes more faith to believe the ridiculous claims of evolution than to simply accept the fact of a Creator/a Designer.

“The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”

[Covenantor]

No big butt indicated in the skeletal fossil, just long feathers.

Was wondering about weird phrasing of Carly Cassela trying to sound ghetto hip in a science article.

Turns out her dad, Chris Cassela is founder of Science Alert....so she can do anything.

[libh8er]

“120 million year old”

With that as the premise of the story, everything that follows has to be BS.

[flaglady47]

Birds of a feather, seek sex together....

[flaglady47]

Birds of a feather, seek sex together....

[fso301]

[TangoLimaSierra]

Maybe just a weird bird that liked to stick other bird’s feathers up its butt.

[CivilWarBrewing]

MEEP MEEP!

If you've ever seen a Roadrunner skillfully SNIP a leg off a baby Quail in order to keep it from running away..

[BradyLS]

NBC’s peacock before they switched to color.

[Openurmind]

I was thinking the same thing. Peacock, and they mostly use theirs for courting display and wooing a mate during the season.

[Openurmind]

I think you nailed it. Roadrunner...