A 65-MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL OF A PARROT’S
JAW IS IDENTICAL TO THE JAW OF THE
CONTEMPORARY PARROT!
One important development to disappoint the evolutionists is
the “fossil parrot jaw” found 40 years ago. This fossil, estimated as
being 65 million years old, has the same structure as the jaw of a pre-
sent-day parrot. When this fossil was first unearthed, it was not giv-
en the interest it deserved, but has become a current issue, due to in-
vestigations conducted by Thomas Stidham on the fossil collection
of Berkeley University’s Paleontology Museum. His research
showed this to be the oldest parrot fossil found to date, and that this
parrot lived in the same era as the dinosaurs. According to X-rays
taken of the 13 mm fossil, the K-shaped mark on the fossil—the
tracks of blood vessel and nerves—is identical to ones on a present-
day parrot’s beak.
* Thomas A. Stidham, “A lower jaw from a Cretaceous parrot,”
Nature
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No: 396, 5 November 1998, pages 29-30.
