New fossil bird found - Eoconfuciusornis zhengi

01 May 2008

 The much coveted role of filling the bird evolution chain has had a link added by Chinese and British paleontologists. This bird supposedly lived 120-131 million years ago and fills the void between such famous fossils as Archaeopteryx that lived 150 million years ago and the Liaoning birds that lived 125 million years ago.

 Why is this bird important in the chain of bird evolution? Its not. It turns out it is a fully formed and fully functional bird. What they would love to find is a specimen with a half wing half arm or something with feathers and scales. Due to the fact the feathers and scales are biologically completely different (one is make similar to hair and the other is just folds of skin) there is no known way for the one to have turned into the other. It is much more feasible that hair evolved into feathers, but that does not fit their presupposition.

- Birds lived before the flood
- Birds died in the flood
- Birds live now

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945295.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080506-dinosaur-bird.html