Posted on 07/27/2011 1:55:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
This artist's rendition released by Nature shows what scientists at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing are dubbing "Xiaotingia zhengi." The discovery of its fossilized remains helped scientists propose an evolutionary tree that suggests archaeopteryx is not a bird. (AP Photo/Nature, Xing Lida and Liu Yi)
I never thought it was a “bird” as in modern “birds”. It was presented as something else - some creature evolving on the way to birds. It had teeth and clawed fingers on the wings - un”birdlike” characteristics among others.
When looking at fossil remains and trying to piece them together with modern groups or species, it is like looking at twigs and pieces of branchs and trunks from a tree and trying to reconstruct the whole tree. When the pieces you have very often represent only a very small percentage of the entire tree, its difficult to point with certainty a particular twig and identify it as being in the same branch as another twig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin
“It is notable for having chicks which possess claws on two of their wing digits.”
Oh, good. Now I don’t have to make a fool of myself trying to pronounce the name in public.
The important question is,”What does it taste like?”
Interesting article and a good read, although I’m wondering how many people will skip over this line from the article and just focus on the headline;
“The Chinese scientists acknowledge they have only weak evidence to support their proposal, which hinges on including a newly recognized dinosaur.”
Bird or not they tasted like chicken.
Evolutionists strike out again!
chicks which possess claws on two of their wing digits...
...thought for a moment we were discussing some of my high school dates...
chicks which possess claws on two of their wing digits...
...thought for a moment we were discussing some of my high school dates...
well.. I guess I can smash up all them slabs of these little fellas and use them for walkways... let a future generation put the pieces together. (just kidding, what do they go for?)
An Archaeopteryx is a bird is a tree is a bike is a boy. Uhmm, I think I am getting this evolution thing. S/
Looks like a doorman at some weird disco in the early 80s.
A-well everybody’s heard about the bird
Bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, bird is the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word
A-well-a bird bird b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a bird bird b-bird’s the word
A-well-a
A-well-a everybody’s hearin’ about the bird
Bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well everybody’s talkin’ all about the bird!
A-well-a bird bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well a bird
Surfin’ bird
[gibberish]
Well don’t you know about the bird?
Well everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird bird, b-bird’s the word
[gibberish]
Pteranodon.
Creationists are Imageo Dei.
Evolutionists are Imageo Goo.
The chinese can play with semantics and try to secure their hegemony in the scientific world by playing with labels all they want, Archaeopteryx simply is what it is, an undeniable evolutionary link between reptiles and the rise of the true birds. They need to stick to stuff they know like harvesting kidneys from condemned political prisoners.
” Xiaotingia zhengi.”
Xiao means little or small. Pronounced pretty much like ‘chow,’ I have a grey tiger cat named Xiaohu. Little Tiger.
Well, I was taught in HS that Archaeopteryx was a bird, so I’m sticking to it.
On the other hand, I was taught in HS that “Natural Born Citizen” meant born on the soil of parents who were citizens.
So who the F knows these daze???
That song is used by a local used car lot in their commercials.
They have the sales people doing the funky chicken in the parking lot while it plays in the background........
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