ARCHAEOPTERYX.

FLIGHTLESS ARCHAEOPTERYX THEORY reported in Nature News 12 November 2013. Michael Habib, a biologist at the University of Southern California has a new theory on Archaeopteryx: rather than being a “proto-bird”, i.e. a dinosaur evolving into a flying bird, it was a flying bird that was evolving into a flightless bird. Habib carried out a study of limb proportions and feather symmetry of living birds and compared them with Archaeopteryx. According to Nature News, “he found that the creature’s traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands”. Habib commented: “We know Archaeopteryx was living on an archipelago during the Jurassic. And with its feathers and bones looking so much like modern flightless island birds, it just makes me wonder”.

Link: Nature News

ED. COM. What a conundrum for the evolutionists now. If Archaeopteryx was losing its flight ability it was degenerating, not evolving. If its skeletal proportions and feathers were like rails and grebes, we need to keep in mind those creatures are birds, not dinosaurs. Lose, lose for the evolutionists.