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Originally Posted by (jpapadpapa,) As for Archaeopteryx, there is evidence that it is simply a different species of bird, now extinct.
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I see you haven't provided the sources to support that statement.
Here's a
link refute your proposal, and here's the conclusion at the end incase you miss it:
"Conclusions
Archaeopteryx is a bird because it had feathers. However, it retained many dinosaurian characters which are not found in modern birds, whilst having certain characters found in birds but not in dinosaurs.
By virtue of this fact Archaeopteryx represents an example of a group in transition - a representative which, although on the sidelines in the dinosaur to bird transition, an echo of the actual event, still allows a brief glimpse into the possible mechanism which brought about the evolution of the birds and by its very existence shows that such a transition is possible."