Re: Yet another Budikkka hole: the Reptile/Mammal Colossal Hole

"jabriol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Archaeopteryx meanwhile continues to be the subject of serious
> > > scholarship and causes dispute among scientists who do not question
> > > its authenticity. In an article published in the Zoological Journal of
> > > the Linnean Society in 1984 (Vol. 82, pp. 119-158)
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> > Almost 20 years ago.  Do you actually have anything recent or is your
> > entire set of arguments at least two decades out of date?
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> yup.. but nothing has changed... doesnt evolution takes a loooooong time
eh?
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> > > and called "The
> > > avian relationship of Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds", R. A.
> > > Thulborn argues that Archaeopteryx is not, in fact, a bird at all!
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> > It was a fifty-fifty dino-bird mix.  A transitional form.
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> nope it was a bird... it is called a bird,
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> and there is evidence that birds existed way before
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> http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2000/Jun00/birds.htm
> CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest
> animal ever known to have feathers, which may have been the ancestor of
> birds but clearly was not a dinosaur - a discovery that calls into serious
> question many theories about an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and
> birds.

Feathers fly over fossil reptile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1036937.stm

The latest research indicates that Longisquama didn't have feathers, but
highly modified scales.