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Four-Winged Dinosaur Definition Doesn't Fly
by Brian Thomas, M.S. | Jul. 30, 2014
...Do these unique features fit evolution's expected transitions? Do these descriptions of wings, flight feathers and flight control dynamics sound even remotely dinosaurian? It doesn't seem so. Changyuraptor had the same kinds of features as birds.
Four-winged birds, complete with fully-formed feathers and appropriately proportioned tails might be called "dinosaurs" by those more committed to the belief that dinosaurs evolved into birds than they are committed to following the actual evidence.
Perhaps like the recent author who reverted back to calling a long-time bird a dinosaur after a second look at the evidence,2 these evolutionary researchers may one day regret having referred to Changyuraptor as a "four-winged dinosaur." Changyuraptor had none of the transitional features required to morph a real dinosaur into a bird. True, it was unlike any of today's familiar birds, but as the saying goes, if it quacks like a duck, has feathers like a duck, then it's probably a duck. In this case, bird wings and feathers don't make a dinosaur, but rather an exquisitely well-fashioned four-winged flying bird.
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