Creationism reels back once again, or new four-winged dinosaur fossil found

[Urban Ranger]

I am surprised that nobody has posted a thread on this. From a National Geographic article:

Paleontologists in China have discovered the fossil remains of a four-winged dinosaur with fully developed, modern feathers on both the forelimbs and hind limbs.

Xu Xing, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, and colleagues suggest in the January 23 issue of the journal Nature that the species is an early ancestor of birds that probably used its feathered limbs, along with a long, feather-fringed tail, to glide from tree to tree.

I wonder if this is a transitional form.

[Dis]

I was reading about this in a magazine.

I think this is the same story. Is this the story that says dinasaurs evolved into birds?

If not, then I'm talking about a different story.

The problem is China has a fake fossil business. And many U.S. Paleantologists are skeptical.

Actually some creationists are trying to use this news to show how evolution is wrong. But that is a really silly argument.

[Dis]

I'd have to see that article. I may be talking about a different article I read.

[Lemmy]

Oh yeah, i saw this on the news the other day, i don't think they believe this is a transitional form, because, IIRC, the mechanics with 4 wings is very different from our 2-winged present day birds.

[statusperfect]

feathered wings, which researchers believe the dinosaur used to glide from tree to tree, much like flying squirrels do today

Dinosaurs evolved into squirrels.

[Az]

bah!

China are just a bunch of good for nothing infidels. What would you expect from them.

[monolith94]

Very mature attitude their, azazel?
What a freaky åss looking dinosaur/bird!

[Provost Harrison]

It's a perculiar looking bugger, but who is to say that it didn't lose the rear wings if they were redundant, I mean, it is a lot of resources to expend on something that isn't strictly necessary, which may prove to be a decisive in a time of scarcity.

[Az]

that's me.

[Urban Ranger]

dissident,

There's an article published in the January 23 issue of Nature, so it gives the discovery more creditability.


Lemmy,

Still a transitional form - between dinosaurs and birds.


Azazel,

Yeah well, our words are backed by nuclear weapons. So there.

[lightblue]

Doubt it is a transitional form, more likely to be a "dead-end". Archaeoptryx looks more like a transitional form tbh.

[Az]

lightblue:. Archeopterix was already a full fledged bird, mostly. It had teeth and claws, but it could independently fly, and had plumage.

This finding is doubtful. 4 wings?

[lightblue]

Yeah it is probably fairly late in the transition, but I wouldn't be surprised if some the smaller raptors had feather-like (which are just a specialised form of scales really) scales as well.

[Az]

I've actually read the aritcle.

"Four winged" MY ASS. what a ****ing stupid description. I was actually led to believe that this thing had 4 wings, like the mutant drozofelia that we all learned to love.

now I am rather certain. It is the missing link.

[Az]

(I would like to point out that the pic shows the hind legs having long feathers, this hardly constitutes wings. The picture is freaky though)