Apsaravis ukhaana

New Fossil Found In Mongolia Provides Insight Into The Origin Of Living Birds And The Evolution Of Flight
"The discovery in Mongolia of the fossil of a new bird, Apsaravis ukhaana, that lived about 80 million years ago, sheds new light on the evolution of birds. The nearly complete specimen of the small pigeon-sized bird was found at the locality Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert of Southern Mongolia as part of the ongoing joint expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences."
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80 Million years ago... a specimen the size of a small pigeon-sized bird, in Southern Mongolia that did not come from T-Rex in North America and although it was Asian territory, it still precedes Velociraptor.

Creationists make a mockery of Evolution by proclaiming "Darwin taught man came from a chimp."
No Darwin did NOT teach man came from a "chimp."
But now, some fanatics have taken a step of maximum-overreach and teach that somehow T-Rex got access to a time machine, went back in time, and evolved into a chicken.
Creationists mock darwin by drawing a cartoon of a cow evolving into a whale.
The shoe fits.
That's an apt-summary of the dino-bird theory..
Not only do the locations of the creatures conflict, but the dates as well.
Evolution does show examples of similar species, evolving into new species, in the general environment -- unless gifted with ability of migratory flight or swimming, or a logical explanation for how they moved across large geographic locations. Also over 10's or 100's of millions of years, one group can evolve into new species which have been modified (but seldom the "drastic extreme") as would be required, in warm-blooded birds supposedly evolving "from NON-warm-blooded" dinosaurs.

An interesting list of ancient creatures (not all of them are birds) with the ability to fly, part of which has already been explained as convergent evolution (developing the ability to fly, independently and un-related to birds).
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I am attaching a list of birds with approximate dates they arose.

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Sadly, it is almost impossible to know about the TRUE origin of birds (fossils which are known) because every time you google up the name of a primitive bird species like "Apsaravis ukhaana" searching for a professional recreation of what the fossil might have looked like in life... you get a flood of images where pseudo-darwinists are trying to superimpose "dinosaur" looking characteristics on the bird fossils, or dinosaurs with feathers to misleadingly appear to be bird-like, which is not only very annoying... it is outright misleading.

Alan Feduccia called it "the meltdown of paleontology."

One image of Apsavris ... "sadly... lacking a skull."
(Source). But they make certain to add that skull in with face that looks more like a dinosaur, than a bird.

There was a professor who once warned against doing that very thing.
He mentioned that since fossil remains were never recovered which proved the specimen had legs, it was better to leave the specimen OUT of the list. But since some were very eager to re-draw the fossil with legs anyway.... he said, to leave it out of the list... his advice,

"...Protocetus is very poorly known, no limbs, no tail, no lower jaw, just a skull and a bunch of vertebrae. Protocetus was for years the best known cetacean (hence it was described as well known) but no limbs for it were known (and are still not known). For Protocetids, there are limbs and feet. Protocetids are a bigger group than Protocetus. Protocetids include Protocetus, but also Rodhocetus, Artiocetus, Indocetus, Georgiacetus, and some of those have better skeletons. So at this point some whales are better known."

See below. True birds in red. Dinosaurs in green.