I have a feeling it was more like whatever god made it to be...
archaeopteryx is just another in the millions of species we will never see because they died. Why does it have to be a missing link? We have lizards AND birds... How can that be?
2006-09-04 16:22:26 · 7 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry, meant to write God, not god.
2006-09-04 16:23:14 · update #1
I think it was supposed to be a feathery lizard. But you are right- it was however it was because GOD designed it that way.
There is no missing link. The term "missing link" implies that there actually IS an evolutionary link that connects us all. As of yet...ahem ahem...no such "link" has been found. Mainly because it doesn't exist. <----------please note: personal opinion here!!!
Why would some lizard evolve feathers anyway? How do you "evolve" a feather exactly? Do you grow one and a time- each generation gaining one until finally you can fly?
riiiight....
2006-09-04 16:28:19 · answer #1 · answered by ashcatash 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't either; it was a dinosaur. Dinosaurs and lizards co-existed for millions of years. Ultimately, dinosaurs became extinct and their evolutionary traces can be found in modern birds. As for the "missing link", there isn't much significance in that. Many species of dinosaurs, including the well known Tyrannosaurus, had feathers, at least in the early stages of their development.
2006-09-04 23:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by Paul J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An extinct primitive bird of the genus Archaeopteryx of the Jurassic Period, having lizardlike characteristics such as teeth and a long bony tail. It may represent a transitional form between dinosaurs and birds.
So...it was both
2006-09-04 23:28:42 · answer #3 · answered by J. A. M. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. It is a pre-bird that branches off the same tree that lizarrds branch from.
Modern classifications apply only to modern species.
2006-09-04 23:49:33 · answer #4 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that the birds of today are actually dinosaurs that evolved down, or the remnants of the dinosaurs. Dinos actually resembled birds more than they resembled lizards.
2006-09-04 23:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by Rachael G 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ive heard it was a lizard, which only had wings..
it is coldblooded so it cant be a bird
2006-09-04 23:24:46 · answer #6 · answered by Jc Da Man 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one pretends that fossil records are complete. There are huge gaps in them everywhere...so far.
2006-09-04 23:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋