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Un-painted casts for those who want to save money and see the fine details from the original fossils. Or artists who prefer to do their own painting. FAST DELIVERY GUARANTEED! OR FREE CAST - Shipped in 7 DAYS of payment or bid amount refunded!! This is a cast of the Eichstatt specimen of the famous Jurassic fossil bird Archaeopteryx lithographica. And Compsognathus casts. These casts are made from molds made by a well-known paleontologist from the REAL FOSSILS.  Bird skeleton slab MEASURES: 9 inches tall, by 11 inches wide. The Compsognathus dinosaur skeleton slab MEASURES: 11.5 inches long, by 10.5 wide. They come ready to hang, with picture wire on the back. 

The Archaeopteryx Bird

The Eichstatt specimen was discovered near Workerszell in Germany in 1951. It is a juvenile 2/3 the size of the other 5 semi-complete specimens.

So far, the remains of 8 Archaeopteryx have been found - which includes a single feather.

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 others are missing. It was from the minute details from this one skull 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 theropods appeared; and therefore birds could NOT have evolved later from DINOSAURS.

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 descendant of a reptile), but an offshoot from the early avian stem"(M.J. Benton, Nature 305:99 [1983]).

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 singleheaded 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.

The Compsognathus Dinosaur

This is the SMALLEST and BEST preserved dinosaur skeleton, Compsognathus longipes.

   The first Compsognathus was discovered in 1859 in the Late Jurassic, Solnhofen Formation in Germany - in the same limey shale strata as the Berlin specimen of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx. Only two Compsognathus skeletons have been found so far: this one in Germany (a juvenile), the other in France (an adult) in 1972.

   This cast is of the German juvenile, which is about 10 inches in diameter - stretched out it would be about 2 foot long from its nose to the tip of its tail. It was reconstructed with two fingers, but now it is believed that it had three.

   The adult found in France had 10 eggs and a lizard (Bavarisaurus) inside of it.

   It has been speculated that birds evolved from these theropod dinosaurs, and that Compsognathus was very similar to Archaeopteryx. However, Archaeopteryx is found with it in the same strata, so it could not be an ancestor. And unlike the solid boned Archaeopteryx; Compsognathus had hollow bones. And Archaeopteryx had collarbones; and Compsognathus didn’t. Also, the head in Compsognathus is larger, with larger teeth, the legs are thicker and shorter, and the neck is thicker. There is a great deal of difference between the graceful, simple Archaeopteryx skeleton; and the more complex, muscular, robust skeleton of Compsognathus.

  The Bible refers to dinosaurs, marine reptiles, and flying reptiles as Tannin; translated dragons. It is believed that some Hadrosaur dinosaurs like Lambeosaurus made sounds through elaborate nasal cavities; the Bible says in Micah 1:8, “I will make a wailing like the dragons...â€� They may have also used these for sensitive smelling, Jeremiah 14:6 says, “...they snuffed up the wind like dragons...â€� And Isaiah 35:7, “...habitation of dragons...with reeds and rushes.â€� The word translated “reedâ€� is calamus, the same plant commonly found as a fossil with dinosaur bones. This same word is used in connection with the dinosaur Behemoth - see Job 40:21. And Deuteronomy 32:33, “Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the venom of asps.â€� In Jurassic Park the dinosaur Dilophosaur spat poison. This came from legendary reports of a living theropod dinosaur seen in Europe in historical times, which spat poison!