Fossil Bird Berlin ARCHAEOPTERYX Cast Most Authentic Museum Quality Reproduction Start Price USD 55.00 Current Price USD 55.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 15, 2008 End Time Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Location Riverside, CA See more about 'Fossil Bird Berlin ARCHAEOPTERYX Cast' Description Hand painted and cast from the real fossil, unlike other reproductions. This cast was made from a mold of the real fossil. The slab MEASURES: 17.5 inches tall, by 14 inches wide. Comes ready to hang with a picture wire attached to the back. Over one hundred have been sold all over the world.   Shipping & handling charges:  Postage $20.00, box $6.50, bubble wrap $2.00, tape $1.00, labor FREE.   Archaeopteryx (pronounced ar'kee op' ter ix) means "ancient wing" This creature is found fossilized with the dinosaurs in Jurassic strata, which includes Compsognathus. We also sell a cast of the Compsognathus skeleton.    Archaeopteryx was regarded as an intermediate form between birds and reptiles, but it has now been shown to be a true bird with feathers identical to modern birds, with aerodynamic flight feathers, and was capable of powered flight. It had teeth, claws on its wings, and a long bony tail. These are common features of extinct birds. These facts support creation predictions of micro-evolution, which is degeneration from complex to simple over time. Micro-evolution (change from dog to another kind of dog) causes speciation by loss of genetic information, resulting in recessive genes replacing this loss causing changes that allow a few organisms to survive. This is design not macro-evolution (change from dog to cat) evolution. It is from greater genetic diversity - to less. Only eight Archaeopteryx specimens are known. The Berlin specimen, was discovered in the Middle Jurassic Solnhofen Formation, Dorr Limestone quarry in Germany near Eichstatt in 1877 by Karl Haberlein. He sold it to the Berlin Museum of Natural History in 1880. It is the most complete and well-preserved specimen. It is pictured in countless books, and is the most famous fossil in the world. The fossil is an entire skeleton with a full set of feather impressions - unlike the other featherless seven fossil specimens. We also, sell a cast of the skeleton of the Eichstatt specimen.   WARNING: This quality cast is not a sculpted reproduction as sold by others, or inferior casts from molds many generations from the original. Incorrect jagged shabby slabs different from the real fossil made by others. This cast is made in high strength casting plaster from an early generation mold made on the actual fossil at the Berlin Museum. This gives our cast clarity and detail of the real fossil, including the tiny teeth and the cross-veins of the feather impressions (not seen in most other casts) revealing the twisting and double impressions of the death throws of a creature being buried alive in water deposited in volcanic mud flows alive!   This mold was taken after the claws were etched out of the matrix in recent years to further expose the claw tips - another feature not found in some competitors casts. This is truly a museum-quality cast of a famous, scientifically important specimen as verified by the comment of one of our customers who works at the Denver Museum of Natural History, "Good evening, I'd very much like to bid on this item after seeing one like it at a museum recently (I believe it may have even been your reproductions judging by the size and quality)." A great addition to any fossil collection, an natural work art from the hand of the Creator (excellent wall decoration in place of a painting), and teaching tool. Low starting bid and our prices are lower than rock shops & mineral shows. Check, money order, or PayPal accepted. We ship worldwide.   The Eichstatt specimen has the best-preserved skull of all the other specimens; which was crushed in the Berlin specimen, and the skulls in the other six specimens are missing. It was from the minute details from this one skull of the Eichstatt specimen that all the speculation on reptile-like characteristics was produced. Through the use of circular reasoning, the details of the shape of the structure of the bones of Archaeopteryx have been interpreted as reptile-like in an attempt to support the speculation that they evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Further evidence is found in another bird claimed to be in strata 75 million years older than Archaeopteryx - identical to Archaeopteryx which has: A long bony tail, teeth in its jaws, and clawed fingers on its wings (just like Archaeopteryx) in the Triassic called Proto-Avis. This is the same stratum where the first  dinosaurs (theropods) appear; and therefore birds and dinosaurs appeared at the same time; so Archaeopteryx could NOT have evolved from   DINOSAURS. Feathered Dinosaurs? There have been new discoveries of baby dinosaurs with filaments similar to down on baby birds to keep them warm. Evolutionists have interpreted these as proto feathers with no proof. This goes along with the growing evidence that dinosaurs were active warm blooded animals; contrary to the predictions of evolution, and confirming the predictions of creation. Recently, the first true feathered dinosaur was found in China called the Archaoraptor. It was found to be a hoax. Now another fossil has been found from the same place called the dromaeosaur. It is not the dinosaur called Dromaeosaur, because it does not appear with a capitol letter in Italics, which designates an accepted official scientific name. And you will notice that it does not have the raptor's prominent cycle claw. Look at its photo and you will see that it appears to be a hatchling bird. You will also notice it has all the characteristics of the Archaeopteryx! I respectfully suggest it be called a new sub-species Archaeopteryx droeosauroid.   ARTICLE April 21, 2004 - ARCHAEOPTERYX CONFIRMS CREATION PREDICTIONS: It is claimed that Archaeopteryx shares 21 specialized characters with coelurosaurian dinosaurs (A.J. Charig, A New Look at Dinosaurs, Heinemann, London, 1979, p. 139). More recent research using new high tech methods has shown these conclusions to be wrong. In every case, all of these characteristics were found to be bird-like, and not reptile-like. For example, when the cranium (skull) of the London specimen was removed from the fossil and studied, it was proven to be bird-like ( K.N. Whetstone, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology [2(4):439 [1983]). Benton has stated that, "Details of the brain case and associated bones at the back of the skull seem to suggest that Archaeopteryx is not the ancestral bird (Editor’s Note: Not the "missing link" between reptiles and birds), but an offshoot from the early avian stem" (M.J. Benton, Nature 305:99 [1983]). Editor's Note: Could the avian stem be Proto-avis?) In this same article, Benton incorrectly states that the quadrate (the bone in the lower jaw that articulates (the hinge) with the squamosal of the skull) in Archaeopteryx was single-headed as in reptiles. Using more advanced techniques, computed tomography, Haubitz, et al, concluded that the quadrate of the Eichstatt specimen of Archaepoteryx was double-headed similar to modern birds (B. Haubitz, M. Prokop, W. Döhring, J.H. Ostrom, and P. Welinhofer, Paleobiology 14(2):206 (1988]) rather than single-headed, as stated by Benton. The scientific method makes predictions based on known facts, then tests those predictions against new facts and experiments or observations; which either confirm or refute the scientist’s conclusions.   Uncountable times creation predictions in all areas of science have been, and are being confirmed; while the predictions of evolution scientists are consistently refuted just as they have been in the case of Archaeopteryx. PHOTOS: The photo above is the cast you are bidding on, and the photo below is of the ACTUAL FOSSIL in the Berlin Museum. Place a Bid!