Joel Kontinen
Do evolutionists believe in fossils or millions of years? Flightless birds could not travel to far away places. Yet they are found in six landmasses separated by oceans.
One idea was that the ancestors of this group of birds, known as paleognaths, just walked to those locations when most of the planet was harnessed together as the supercontinent Pangaea (320 million to 195 million years ago) and that, when this giant landmass split up, the birds were already in those locations.
The trouble is, the timing for that hypothesis is wrong.
Pangaea had broken up by about 195 million years ago, creating the continents
we know today. However, genetic studies have indicated that the last common
ancestor of these paleognaths lived about 79.6 million years ago and that they
divided into the main lineages we know today between about 70 million and 62 million years ago.
To work out what happened, Klara
Widrig, a vertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of
Natural History in Washington, D.C., and her colleagues analyzed a specimen of
the ancient paleognath Lithornis promiscuous. Although it lived around 59
to 56 million years ago, it is the oldest fossil palaeognath
found in such pristine condition.
So in this area,
fossils rule the time, when flightless birds evolved. However, if God created them
at the beginning, then this surveys is foolish.
Source:
Chris Simms 2025 Huge flightless birds live the world over. Now we know how they got there —and it has to do with a 'rare' ancestor | Live Science September 17
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