Limusaurus inextricabilis (Artist's impression) |
Creationists are probably getting sick and tired of having to deny all the evidence that birds are evolved dinosaurs that has been flooding into the scientific literature over the last few years, but here's some more.
Not only is this pretty convincing evidence, if any more were needed, but it's an example of that other thing that creationists must be sick and tired of having to deny - a transitional species! Creationists like to pretend transitional species and evidence that birds evolved out of therapod dinosaurs is as rare as hen's teeth. It's doubly ironic therefore that this find helps explain just why hen's teeth are so rare - unlike the evidence for the evolution of birds from dinosaurs!
It was discovered by a team from George Washington University visiting the Gobi Desert in Central Asia.
By examining a series of nineteen fossils of the species Limusaurus inextricabilis, a therapod dinosaur from