That my friend, is true

Archaeoraptor liaoningensis When National Geographic published the first pictures of a fossil creature that looked for all the world like a bird-dinosaur, it was hailed as a stunning coup. But now the creature has been exposed as a hoax--the latest in a series of embarrassing reversals in evidence for evolutionary theory.

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Boy, it's a good thing Timothy Rowe, Phin Currie, and Xu Xing, paleontologists, familiar with evolutionary biology, who were listed as co-authors on the paper that described "Archaeoraptor," determined that the specimen was actually a composite of Yanornis, a bird with clawed fingers on its wings, and Microraptor, a dinosaur closely related to Velociraptor, which had birdlike wing feathers on all four of its limbs which were clearly adapted for gliding (also described by Xu Xing), which had been cemented together by the farmer who discovered it before it was illegally sold to enhance its value, and also that the paper that it was rejected from the scientific journal, "Nature," and the press release was only distributed in the popular magazine, National Geographic, and not an actual, formal journal. Stephen Czercas, the main author of the paper, admitted that he had made, quote, "an idiot, bone-stupid mistake." It's a good thing we have hundreds of specimens of Microraptor, as well as other genera like Anchiornis, Confusciusornis, Sinornithosaurus, Zhenyuanlong, Archaeopteryx, of course, and many, many others, which fill in basically every step between small nonavian theropods and modern birds, to the point where "bird" has become a meaningless informal word and we actually have no idea where "dinosaurs" end and "birds" begin anymore. We confuse avialans for troodontids and dromaeosaurids for avialans all the time. That's how seamless the fossil record between these groups is. Gosh, I'm so glad we figured out that "Archaeoraptor" was a composite, otherwise that would have been really confusing, right?

Right, an old friend of mine was an archaeoraptor, the last time i saw him was 2 years ago.

i cant handle this level of comprehension. i think we need to go deeper

Woah

Oh my god...

David McMillon wtf😂

thats what i thought.

I bet it did.

Go back and try to it flesh

Florida chicken, alligator steaks.

I don't think that's how evolution works. T-Rex probably evolved into a larger and much heavier bird which has now been extinct for hundreds of years due to human activity.

Maylee Cao the T-Rex got extinct way before that. Other dinosaurs evolved into birds, and they were also theropods.

Imagine if, instead of mammals evolving giraffes, thinner sauropods evolved into their niche

Extinct not extont

barbarian! 😢

Technically Yes

+Karina Jimenez Chable what

***** i know that

dinosaurs are not monsters

welp i don't find dinosaurs that scary

People just ate the big ones first because they were easier to catch and more meat.

KFD

Kentucky fried dick

I'll have a drumstick & that'll do for the next year or so......

lol

OH f**

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@@RealDexterMidnight bruh

That's a pretty smart comparison, I actually think whales and dolphins are a better comparison since it's suprising to discovered they share the same ancestors with other mammals.

+sam rizzardi Cladistics is weird. Birds are reptiles, and so are mammals... technically. Reptiles are amphibians... Amphibians are fish. We have tried to group animals by characteristics, but cladistics says "screw that".

Well, there's a difference between monophyletic and paraphyiletic clades. Paraphiletyc clades emphasize characteristics of a group of animals while monoplyletic clades are based on one single ancestry with different branches. 'Fish' is a paraphyletic word since it excludes all terrestial animals that descended from fish.

Sandro Algra Barradas So wouldn't reptile also be a paraphyletic word? Also, I was reading more about mammals and if they were ever reptiles. That's... a weird discussion too. It seems that they evolved from things that were not quite reptiles but were past being amphibians.

Meghan Pierce That depends on how the word reptile is used. If you make a clear dintinction between reptiles and birds... then yes, you're using the word in a paraphyletic way. But 'reptilia' is also used as an official taxonomic name. It includes all animals that belong to the family of 'true reptiles'. This includes dinosaurs and therefore birds. So taxonomically speaking birds are also reptiles. Mammals are not reptiles. Although our ancestors were at some point very reptilian in appearance, they weren't true reptiles. Mammals belong to a group called the synapsids while reptiles belong to a group called the sauropsids. But both groups do belong to a larger family called the amniotes.

A velociraptor is about 2 feet tall. Unless you are infant you would likely crush it.

Umm birds do have scales look on there feet

It is true that birds came from dinosaurs. But not from all. Only a clade known as Maniraptora, which includes oviraptor, velociraptor etc, evolved into birds. There are many other dinosaur clades,tribes and families such as Marginocephalia(Triceratops), Sauropoda(Brachiosaurus) and Tyrannosauridae(Tyrannosaurus), that were ultimately gone extinct. From Maniraptora evolved species like protarcheopteryx and archeopteryx, the first birds. What i want to point out is that, you can't say dinosaurs are still alive, because the only living dinosaur class at the end of Cretaceous evolved into the first bird class (Ave). It is like saying that since there are cats, smilodons still exist.

AnimalLover Dinosaurs with scales? Did Jurassic Fart teach you that like it taught you the Velociraptor's size? Of course some dinosaurs didn't live in herds, because not all dinosaurs evolved to birds. The Velociraptor is the closest thing you get to a bird, as Dromaeosaurids branch off the group that contains such creatures as Archeopteryx. Different toes? Sorry to shit on your comment, but a T-Rex foot is shaped EXACTLY like a chicken foot, one longer finger in the middle, two similar fingers and a weak toe on the back. Chickens develop teeth to pluck out insects? Then why don't they grow them normally? Chickens pluck out insects a lot of the time. And OF COURSE birds will look drastically different from dinosaurs idiot, it's 65 million years of evolution, 10 mil. years less than it took primates to appear and form into man. And before you cry out "bullshit" and "conspiracy", here are some sources and images: www.google.rs/search?q=raptor+size&rlz=1C1PRFE_enRS604RS604&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=08o_Va31D4TU7AabtYDYBw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=955#imgrc=CRvNrwDdef68lM%253A%3BF5CPy5GSCugCIM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstatic3.fjcdn.com%252Fcomments%252Fnah%252Butahraptor%252Bway%252Bbigger%252Bthan%252Ba%252Bvelociraptor%252B_b186e3b34e7fc4d9aa5d42286f6c771f.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.giantitp.com%252Fforums%252Fshowthread.php%253F299694-(3-X)-Help-with-a-velociraptor-PC%3B800%3B331 www.google.rs/search?q=feathered+dinosaur+fossils&rlz=1C1PRFE_enRS604RS604&es_sm=122&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=DMs_VYPQLMLU7Aa5loHYCw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgrc=S272B3TfRLqMDM%253A%3BixrjSUcy6Q7HbM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmewarnai.us%252Fimages%252F449491-feathered-dinosaur-fossils.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmewarnai.us%252F449491-feathered-dinosaur-fossils%3B600%3B447 www.google.rs/search?q=feathered+dinosaur+fossils&rlz=1C1PRFE_enRS604RS604&es_sm=122&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=DMs_VYPQLMLU7Aa5loHYCw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=archeopteryx+tree&imgrc=yDN6vj4NApyPHM%253A%3B176ScindNLdZpM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fevolution.berkeley.edu%252Fevolibrary%252Fimages%252Fevograms%252Fbird_evo.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fevolution.berkeley.edu%252Fevolibrary%252Farticle%252Fevograms_06%3B525%3B610

AnimalLover Dud you read my whole comment? SIXTY-FIVE MILLION years of evolution.

Birds evolved. That is crazy talk. Sprouted wings one day and were breeding gold to the girls. That is hilarious. Only colleges in the last 50 years can talk brazenly stupid. Even college is proof of de evolution.

*Theropods are certainly a family of dinosaurs.*

Word

@@primordialprose8093 im confused now, are they dinos or not?

@@primordialprose8093 They don't matter to you but they do matter to scientists. There's a lot of species and related species to sort through

@@primordialprose8093 True. The positioning of clades are important but these naming of ranks are not. I started to realize that when finding out that bird is not a seperate lineage to reptiles and "class" is just meaningless. Like what makes a "class" a "class"? It is just a named clade.

Thank god them saying that annoyed me so much. Thanks for saying this

ok

Na I found one last week.

fred bitzaya In fact we live closer to the CT extinction than Diplodocus did

fred bitzaya yup.

you thinking that made my day

N0ice.

you thinking made me think for the second time in my life

Dead

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no, they should be caled gallosaurus beacaus gallus gallus is the chickens scientific name

ClickerMase TV lol I have some chicknosauroses roaming my back yard

*Chickentosaurus*

@LegoGuy87 I believe so it's not a old world I think only like 700 years old so........ It'd make sense

LoOK aT AlL THoSe ChiCkeNs

+james tre cause it ran from kfd

+Angel Dunbar Because aint nobody got time for tiny little cars

to become a chicken

To escape from humans......and their bullshit.

Someone once attached a piece of wood to their tail to mimic a non-avian dinosaur tail, and it made them walk even more dinosaur like.

Velociraptor Gamer_yt:**AM I A JOKE TO YOU**

And ima spino hah

PinGsamY Those are just words we invented, we love to play and we play with words too, dont take words to serious. The universe doesn´t work in our language : x So it´s just a word play not a rule of the universe : D

PinGsamY because coming together making it easier to survive = good.. apparantly coming together past the form of bacteria was really beneficial... kill the other guys that has more food then ourselves,,,, or just create a new source of food.. bacteria (the cells themselves eating eachother means there is more food around meaning more energy to waste making better versions of future you! i'm sorry it's hard to explain... basically.... bacteria found that killing family = food... the food then evolved into eating previous family... then they evolved to eat the first evolution! the race went on!....

Because that never happened

sure it did and im riding an ice dragon who's spitting out rainbow ghosts

Soulplexxis Watch out for talking snakes and giants.

There's also Carnotaurus, a theropod that has scales instead of feather, and almost snake-like jaws.

You should read more news.. new study shows dinosaurs has scales. Not feathers.

To be more clear on the subject, some dinosaurs only had scales, some dinosaurs only had feathers, and others (including BIRDS) have both.

@@gibsonflyingv2820 you're right

Yes thank you finally! The argument that ALL dinosaurs had feathers is stupid. Yes a lot of dinosaurs had feathers, but only scale impressions have been found with the t rex, triceratops, stegasourus, brachiosaurus, etc

Nia LaLa I have a brain and have health issues and was ordered by my doc to eat meat because of said issues. Usually a smaller stake or chicken breast with the occasional fish thrown in for good measure. You can be vegan or vegetarian all you like, just don't be a bitch about it.

letsgetthisoverwith Please don't take it the wrong way, but while I do know of some health problems which could be helped by eating meat, I don't know of any which would actually require you to.

***** What's ironic about this argument is that you can't make it without being judgmental yourself.

Nia LaLa Actually, vegetarians are still a small minority and there are lot of people who eat meat and who happen to be very smart, even though I agree with you that they are wrong to do it.

Oh I'm sorry but were do u get your animal proteins from? Pills, still animals.

who dosnt know that

lilaolf you would be surprised.

Trisdino i knew it stupid

lilaolf I don't think you understood me..

Trisdino well who dosnt know it then?

KFD.. Kentucky Fried Dino.. admit it.. it's awesome!!

@@SandBox86 yeah

Dino nuggets

What is your preferred dino, chicken or turkey?

nope, I think they are more related to lizards. Look at flying species of lizards..they had wings too. Crocodiles & aligators basically haven't changed at all...and large monitor lizards and dragon lizards like the komodo dragon resemble more dinosaur like qualities than birds. Birds aren't the only animals capable of going underwater, so can reptiles!

Modern lizards and snakes are part of the family of animals called Lepidosaurs, a family of reptiles that split off from Archeosaurs like Crocodilians, Pteosaurs, and Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and Crocodiles are part of the Thecodont branch of Archeosaurs.

ok makes sense now, cool thnx

GrowingDownUnder dinosaurs are distantly related to lizards. dinosaurs never looked and looked nothing like lizards.

Emus are like dinosaur as it comes. Goats too. Look at their anatomy its crazy. Their eyes horns hooves. How do you just grow horns unless you always had them? I understand losing them through genetic errors. But gaining appendages or extra bits is a far stretch unless some gene splicing or cross breeding of species occurs. If evolution is a real thing then ADD kids are a new breed made to cope with the 100mph instant information sugar caffeine work to death life we have. But evolution can only make so much sense. With out some creatures in the food chain there is no food chain which means death. From mites and microbes to mammals and pachyderm things have been around longer than their remains are able to exist. There is no evidence of the mould under the sink once you clean it, even less if you rip it out put in a new sink and infinitely less once the old one has been in an incinerator or landfill. There cant be evidence of anything past a certain point as reality dictates the most you can get is a fossil which can easily be misconstrued confused damaged or destroyed. Sadly word of mouth and man made stories and myths have more evidence than reality itself. We outlive outlast and overcome through rebirth, the same as all of nature's creatures until we destroy them. We also seem to be the only creature on Earth capable of bringing them back. So that gives more credence to the God Theory. If we now have the power to create life and destoybit have we not become gods. Have we not proven the Gods right and we are able to be in their image on earth. That we have now gone full circle and created a virual reality inside our own reality which people are as gods even more so. Access to contact speak and be everywhere at any time, all information knowledge and everything at our will. But through interbreeding and even minor gene manipulation we have so far only had mutants not evolution. Cancer not a new appendage. Diseased rather than flourishing. But if we just did full gene editing we could have giants and monsters with human brains/minds. How is that any different than the original God stories? Not the made up a few thousand years back ones. The original story of the Gods made us from earth DNA found in the dirt. We are an extinct species reborn. That is why we didnt evolve. We were one of many types of bipedal creatures who had brains and families and mated with other bipedal creatures till we had a breed to kill off the others and survive this earth. Look at humans and then look at other animals etc. We have no offensive bits, no natural anything. Our teeth are mixed our bodies weak but able to become strong. We are pets.

Geese?

aspiknf LOL yep, a duck and two swans. Geese got _nothing_ on swans, if you ever get to see one up close, that is not a bird. That is a bona fide dinosaur!

I once had a few with exceptionally long tail feathers that did nothing ever. They made an awesome dinner.

Amelia Bee Those dinosuars in the lake? Their niche is being assholes, that's how they survive....

Because evolution is not a hypothesis, it's a fact. :)

nicole miarey lol Darwin's theory on evolution has a tonne of flaw's but its's the most accepted theory, nothing is fact lol

airman122469 Darwinian evolution is not a fact.

You just answered it yourself, you mentioned two different things. How can it be the same? If it was all the same thing wouldnt it just be classified under the same title?

blaze46waffle Who said anything about Darwin's version of the theory of evolution? Evolution is a scientific theory, arrived at by over 100 years of study. Darwinian evolution is not the complete theory, but it is a good starting place to explain evolution. Evolution happens all the time. Viruses, bacteria, drosophila (fruit flies), nematodes, and more, have all had observed speciation events. Evolution is a fact of non-perfect replicating systems. We can even simulate biological evolution with some relatively simple software. All it takes is a mutation rate and a fitness factor to select "most fit" individuals.

DAMNNNN😭

Well thankyou so much, now I also got distracted XD

Imagine telling people that your hobby is dinosaur watching. lol

The size of the larger dinosaurs came from the need to eat the taller trees and kill the bigger herbivores. When the asteroid wiped out the presence of the sun for a few decades, large size was not advantageous anymore and anything bigger than a medium sized dog *on land* died out. Sharks and such were perfectly fine up to the four meter range. A difference between dinosaurs and reptiles is that dinosaurs (as determined from the presence of birds) were warm blooded. They relied on internal heat to stay warm, whereabouts reptiles relied on external heat to stay warm (eg the sun). Now oxygen concentration would be much more plausible if you were arguing for the sake of giant *insects*, as modern insects don't actually have lungs, and are limited in size because of their trachea works on simple diffusion rather than creating a vacuum (as anything with a lung uses). However, giant insects were around with lower than Carboniferous Forest level oxygen concentrations, so quite possibly there might have been insects with lungs.

Both crocodiles and lizards predate theropod dinosaurs, so its entirely likely many of them did sport some fluff. Also the sister group to dinosaurs, pterosaurs had pycnofibres(basically fur).

Physics has crunched the numbers and said that a dinosaur's bones would break under their immense weight. However the thick atmosphere theory was proposed. Basically the gasses 65 million years ago were very thick. The pressure would be like going very deep into the ocean. This adds buoancy and makes it completely possible for them to grow to that size. Another theory I heard was there was less gravity. But I think I heard that from Jose Canseco.

The Lost History Channel TKTC Crocks and lizards are reptiles..... Dinosaurs where not....

Jayme Lawton correct

Someone finally fucking said it. That's a huge nitpick for me as well. T. rex wasn't involved in this idk why they keep mentioning it.

I... don't recall him saying birds came from dinosaurs. I could have sworn he said birds came from theropods, one of type of which are the tyrannosaurids...

they are cousins of t-rex, as were all other theropods!

***** hahahahaaaa wow .... nice pic

zyl zyl thanks lol

dude chickens are the king of the forest (T Rex)

Haha really Foxy best

Lucky The Dog that happens alot

Short answer: sediments depositing in place.

one of the reasons they are currently classified as dinosaurs.

yeah..Dinosaurs were there all the time..right in front of our eyes....we just didn't recognize them in their current avian form....funny...we called them Birds.....I remember over 30 years ago when this was first coming to light...back then ; many thought that crocodiles were the dinosaurs closest relatives...not birds....how wrong they were....Birds are dinosaurs....I believed that 30 years ago...good to see the world is finally discovering the truth....though I'm sure you will always have your disbelievers ; and those not ready to accept that fact....yeah look at me like i'm crazy; if I call them Dinosaurs....skeptics....I know the truth.

@@davidsnyderWisdomTrollBlocker hahha Evolution fairy tale...

he said small dinosaurs survived the mass extinction and evolved into birds

here were already birds in the cretaceous...

yeah, t-rex became chicken.

no.

T-Rex became piles of bones.

Yes absolutely correct

Dromeosaurs all died out. Birds predate dromeosaurs [like velociraptor]. Birds and mammals evolved in the Jurassic, most famous dinosaurs you see in movies evolved tens of millions of years later during the cretaceous.

+Jazneo Gaming yeah because even in the end of the world they refuse to eat meat

+Jazneo Gaming Yes it mean that

We will eat meat and even slaughter animals... the thing is that it's not necessary at this time.

"Yeah like the brontosaurus, and look what happened to that asshole." -The Tourettes Guy's Dad, 2006.

***** I'm sure it was meant as a troll to creationism.

***** *WOOOOOOSH*

That was a fairly poor effort at trolling D-. Must try harder.

InMaTeofDeath WOOOOOOSH is right. Mfgcasa could have raised their hands and still would not have hit them! ;)

eveningstar1968 . +Mfgcasa whooooosh

No. It means thief. Velociraptor= fast thief.

It doesn't look very scary. More like a 6 ft turkey. :D

it means both.

Dalek Renegade a 2 feet turkey.

Why y'all billing me

If they finches then they birds,and birds being dinosaurs then yes they definitly are

Too bad humans humans cannot properly digest meat and because of that has lead to the two leading factors of death in the united states

I eat nothing else than Meat, Fish, Eggs and nuts(jokes free pls) and... my health is soooo awesome~~~

PurpleRaven300 This also happens with plants.

death or become a tiny meat eating bird hhhhmmmm that's a hard one and I don't really want to be a copy cat

sarfios i wouldn't even bother. vegans and vegetarians will ignore facts that go against their beliefs. arguing with them is useless.

Stinging insects have been on earth for a long time

1. T. rex 2. Birds are NOT descended from T. rex

There are no known evolutionary descendents from the T. Rex. They were merely a part of the theropod group of dinosaurs, which contained other species that eventually evolved into birds.

Someone give this man a Nobel Prize.

You can say that. Or, even better, all reptiles are birds ...... deep.

No. Birds evolved from reptiles and became... birds.

Common now, no need to be so literal. We all get it. If we're gonna be literal , lets just ditch the word reptile, cause not all dinosaurs were cold blooded.

No.... he was talking about only a small species of dinosaurs called Theropods that evolved into birds. Other species evolved into reptiles as well.

Monophyleticly speaking, birds are reptiles, but that would also make mammals be reptiles and would make birds, mammals and reptiles all be fish. Sometimes a group has to be defined paraphyleticly for it to be useful in common language. Observe this diagram of a phylogenetic tree that excludes mammals and aves[birds] from its group of reptiles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphyly#mediaviewer/File:Traditional_Reptilia.jpg

MegaBrame Did your mom homeschool you?

Mikes8899 LMAO 😂 I was legit gonna say that.

N O C O R R E L A T I O N

Yep!

Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla.. Hence it is proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

@@upworkqureshi6665 proofs it

Evolution is fairy tale..

@@upworkqureshi6665 yes it is a fairy tail and evolution is fake

@@indoraptor3405 yes clearly evolution is fake but your magical fairy man in the clouds is totally real

Because it is

Or could we all just agree that religion is human made and its at best a bad fairytale written by people living in desserts 2 Milena ago...

Ishzarks Yeh, but that would mean 33% of KZfaq`s comments would be lost... Another 33% are boobs in thumbnail, and remaining 33% Hitler.

It's only a theory that we came through evolution. There is still a missing link between us and the Neanderthal. It's even more strange that different species of humanoids lived on earth at the same time and were most likely unable to reproduce with each other; the homo-sapiens (us) and the Neanderthals. There is another scientific theory that fills up the gap in between our evolution process and it is the ancient aliens theory, however that one is very controversial.

Gale nighting will people ever stop with "its only a theory" bullshit? its fucking proven, AND IT IS A THEORY. THEY CO-EXIST.

Nitay A. There is not much evidence to support that humans evolved the same way as every other species on this planet. Much less evidence because of THE MISSING LINK. I'm sorry but you took my comment the wrong way. I was trying to say that it's very hard to prove the evolution process of humans. There is much more evidence to support the evolution of every other species of the planet with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, but humans are the pain in the ass. As I said, its only a theory that WE... WE came through evolution, There is wayyyyyy more evidence support Neanderthals evolving through the theory of evolution, but the homo sapien, not even close to as much evidence... and that's where the scientific ancient aliens theory comes in to fill the gap. But, that is only a theory as well, WITH PLENTY OF EVIDENCE... Because I already know that scientific theories involve the use of evidence to support a claim.

+Chris Martinez well the dinos would have eaten him anyway.And Yea I meant all carnivores dinos when I said t Rex.I only pointed t Rex since it is popular

+Not Telling Yes, we know it. Mammals descend from small reptiles who became small mammals, that after became placentary mammals.

They also are dinosaurs.

well some not all birds are tasty like chicken, some are nasty to eat and some a even poisoness :)

+rexon31 only one is poisonous and only from its food if raised in captivity it would be fine to eat.

very true but the reason penguins still survive today is because they taste terrible unlike other sea birds that can be quite tasty or they would of went extinct a long time ago . only specialist hunters like sea lions and whale eat them from time to time.

rexon31 Chicken isn't bad, I find it more tasty than... Say beef or Pig

they ate us now we them, justice