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Regarded by many to be the most famous fossil in the world archaeopteryx or "ancient wing", is a creature dating back 150 million years. With the wings, feathers, and wishbone of a bird, but with a lizard-like tail and claws on its wings, it was hailed as the missing link between reptiles and modern birds.
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The "ancient wing" is not even close to half-bird half-reptile. Its a bird with modern feathers, and birds are very different from reptiles in many important ways- their breeding system, bone structure, their lungs, their distribution of weight and muscles. its a bird, thats clear- not part bird and part reptile. It is not the missing link. |
You seem to be trying to create an argument where there is none. It smells like one of the silly creationist constructs that attempts to use misrepresented science to "prove" that evolution or some other aspect of theory is wrong. Praise Jesus.
I have no doubt that you would get an argument from most educated 5 year olds over whether the archaeopteryx is the "most famous fossil in the world". As famous fossils go the archaeopteryx is distinctly B-list. Language like "missing link" also sounds like a the work not of a scientist but of a science writer dumbing down the copy so his editor can understand it.