Fossil evidence of bird lungs raises eyebrows
Scientists have found a fossil of a bird, Archaeorhynchus spathula, which was ‘dated’ at 120 million years old using long–age assumptions. But it displayed features that are regarded by evolutionists as ‘modern’. The bird has a toothless, spatula-like bill, and the ability to flex its upper jaw. These features are all found in ‘modern’ shore-dwelling birds. The fossil also had well-defined flight feathers indicative of a strong flyer. It even had long pointed feathers that were previously unknown in any ‘Mesozoic’ birds. These feathers have hitherto only been found in ‘modern’ birds such as the pintail duck.
Most impressively of all, the fossil was preserved with what appear to be the lungs. These resemble those of small modern birds, and are unlike those of reptiles. Many evolutionists claim that modern birds only evolved from dinosaurs around 65 million years ago. But here we have a bird that dates back to 120 million years using evolutionary dating, yet it is already fully developed with all these ‘modern’ features of birds.
We can best understand this fossil bird as having been buried with dinosaurs during the Flood of Noah. Aquatic birds are frequently found with dinosaurs, consistent with them both living in/around water.
- Xiaoli Wang, Jingmai K., et al., Archaeorhynchus preserving significant soft tissue including probable fossilized lungs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oct 2018, 201805803; doi:10.1073/pnas.1805803115.
- Riddle of the Feathered Dragons, p. 118, Yale University Press, 2012.
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