[ZULU]

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.

[James C. Bennett]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin

“It is notable for having chicks which possess claws on two of their wing digits.”

[calex59]

Dinos didn't evolve into birds. There is no way the lung system of a lizard or a mammal could have evolved into the lung system of a bird. How would the intermediate species(of which absolutely none have been found)have survived while these changes took place? Many of the so called "dino bird" fossils recently found in China, in fact all, have been outed as fakes and the so called feathers were not feathers at all.

To say birds evolved from a ground bound species like raptors is BS, especially when there were many air borne species already flying around. Why wouldn't the flying lizards have been the ones to evolve into birds? The fact is, there is zero evidence to support the dino to bird theory except for speculation on the parts of evolutionists.

[Red Badger]

Like the story of the blind men and the elephant.......