A new fossil to back the fact of common ancestry has been revealed, which is Anchiornis Huxleyi - a feathered dinosaur. This is a very impressive specimen, as impressive as Archaeopteryx and the recently discovered Epidexipteryx. As with Archaeopteryx and Epidexipteryx, you can see the teeth and claws, along with the wonderful feathers.
Again, I will remind creationists that we never find modern birds at the level of strata we find these feathered dinosaurs. If everything was created in six literal days, then everything that has ever existed lived together and at the fall of Adam began to die together, so we should find them fossilized together, but we never do. We find Cambrian species in Cambrian rocks, Permian species in Permian rocks, Jurassic species in Jurassic rocks, etc., etc..
Look at the comparative anatomy of modern birds and these extinct feathered dinosaurs. Feathered dinosaurs had a wishbone and pneumatic (hollow air filled) bones, so do modern birds. Modern birds and feathered dinosaurs have the same footprint, and modern birds also have reptilian like scaled legs and feet, like these dinosaurs had. And you'll notice that feathers lay the same way on the bird's body as scales lay on the reptile's body, both scales and feathers both consisting of keratin. Scales and feathers are variations of the same thing. And if you dissect a modern turkey's wing you can see where the claw on one of the fingers used to be.
Also, you'll notice these feathered dinosaurs have teeth and modern birds don't, but sometimes modern birds, like chickens, are born with mutant teeth, and this is because they have a pseudogene for teeth, which produces this atavism. Pseudogenes are genes that have lost their ability to code for anything but are left in the genome, as DNA stores information.
This newly found fossil is an exciting find! What wonderful days we live in to be the first to see these evidences that support the fact of common ancestry (evolution).
Again, I will remind creationists that we never find modern birds at the level of strata we find these feathered dinosaurs. If everything was created in six literal days, then everything that has ever existed lived together and at the fall of Adam began to die together, so we should find them fossilized together, but we never do. We find Cambrian species in Cambrian rocks, Permian species in Permian rocks, Jurassic species in Jurassic rocks, etc., etc..
Look at the comparative anatomy of modern birds and these extinct feathered dinosaurs. Feathered dinosaurs had a wishbone and pneumatic (hollow air filled) bones, so do modern birds. Modern birds and feathered dinosaurs have the same footprint, and modern birds also have reptilian like scaled legs and feet, like these dinosaurs had. And you'll notice that feathers lay the same way on the bird's body as scales lay on the reptile's body, both scales and feathers both consisting of keratin. Scales and feathers are variations of the same thing. And if you dissect a modern turkey's wing you can see where the claw on one of the fingers used to be.
Also, you'll notice these feathered dinosaurs have teeth and modern birds don't, but sometimes modern birds, like chickens, are born with mutant teeth, and this is because they have a pseudogene for teeth, which produces this atavism. Pseudogenes are genes that have lost their ability to code for anything but are left in the genome, as DNA stores information.
This newly found fossil is an exciting find! What wonderful days we live in to be the first to see these evidences that support the fact of common ancestry (evolution).
