Missing link in birds believed found

[Alistar7]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_sc/ancient_birds


WASHINGTON - Separating the layers of sediment from an ancient lake was like turning the pages of a book to get a glimpse of life in the time of dinosaurs, an international team of scientists said Thursday.

What they found is being called the missing link on the evolution of birds, a loon-like creature that lived in northwest China and is the earliest example of modern birds that populate the planet today.

Before their discovery, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science, the only evidence for this creature ? Gansus yumenensis ? was a single, partial leg discovered in the 1980s.

Now researchers have dozens of nearly complete fossils of Gansus, said a beaming Matt Lamanna of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.



Another piece of the evolutionary puzzle has been found. Sounds like a fantastic find considering the quantity and quality of the specimens.

 

[Strk]

That sounds great.

Now for the disbelievers to chime in on why they think evolution is fake...

 

[dguy6789]

Science 1, Non science 0

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Strk
That sounds great.

Now for the disbelievers to chime in on why they think evolution is fake...

Obviously god place it there to weed out the faithful from the heretics.

 

[Lemon law]

Just cool in my mind---first the fish land link---and now this now found missing bird link. Just another thing for then religious anti-evolutionist to explain away. But don't care to go there in my post.

For a pro science type like me, its just another wonder to delight in--it may not turn out to be all its billed so far---another streagth of science we sometime ignore---but we keep looking.
Only the lucky few find the right rock to look under--we also need to honor those tireless workers who prove a given rock is not the right place to look under.

 

[Moonbeam]

I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

Apparently the Intelligent Designer isn't quite as smart as we give it credit for.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

Apparently the Intelligent Designer isn't quite as smart as we give it credit for.

Maybe, but it seems pretty shrewd to me to prototype and evolve your designs.

 

[DealMonkey]

What the article didn't say, and what plainly happened, is those scientists also found cavemen skeletons who were clearly riding the dinosaur-like early birds. Yup, that's what happened.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

How long is one of God's days anyway?

 

[Lazy8s]

didn't Da Vinci paint a picture of a loon

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

How long is one of God's days anyway?

24 God hours.

 

[Lemon law]

As a perfectly conceited poster I could point out that all you lesser humans are also just trial run prototypes that could stand some improvement---in me, God finally got it exactly right. And if you don't believe it, just ask me.

But as that perfect human being I do antisipate some disagreement which I will simply dismiss as proof of your inferiority.

Thank God science does not take circular reasoning arguments seriously--so its back to being just another prototype for me.---and the admission that every new addition to knowlege just points out more new things we don't know.

 

[piasabird]

The last fossil from China was a forgery.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: piasabird
The last fossil from China was a forgery.

You and your ilk call all fossils forgeries.

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think God took a hundred million years of practice to make real birds. This is obviously one of his trial runs.

How long is one of God's days anyway?

24hrs a day, that makes the planet about 7000yrs old, I think. Lets face it, we're all WACKOS who think we know something, but we don't.

 

[Steeplerot]

Originally posted by: smack Down

Originally posted by: piasabird
The last fossil from China was a forgery.

You and your ilk call all fossils forgeries.

:thumbsup: :laugh:

 

[Lemon law]

Lets not jump on piasabird--lots of fossil forgeries planted in the history of science---but it all come out in the wash---a streagth of science.--look how long it took to debunk piltdown man.
Science is about keeping open minds.