"Please go here . There are some good points on the Archaeopteryx , including a fossil find that shows a more modern bird-like fossil that may predate the Archaeopteryx ."
"Here 's a picture of it http : //www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galle ... re/161_632.jpg The specimens have been dated between 120 & amp ; 140 my . If at the upper end of that range that puts it very close to the age of Archaeopteryx ( 140 to 170 my ) . But contrary to what creationists like to claim , this is n't a problem . There is no claim that Archaeopteryx is ancestral to Confuciusornis . If you look at birds now you will see lots of different species . They have a common ancestor but are not descended from one another . Archaeopteryx is just the oldest example of a bird that we have , and considering the distance between the sites where the fossils were found , and possibly several million years in time , I would expect them to be different ."
"There are some good points on the Archaeopteryx , including a fossil find that shows a more modern bird-like fossil that may predate the Archaeopteryx ."
"There is no claim that Archaeopteryx is ancestral to Confuciusornis . If you look at birds now you will see lots of different species . They have a common ancestor but are not descended from one another ."