Creationists have been crying, “But where are the intermediate species?” They have been busy ignoring the mother of all intermediate species for 151 years. The first remains of Archaeopteryx were discovered in 1861; just two years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Archaeopteryx is half way between a reptile and a bird. They further ignore the logical problem, that when you find a “missing link” as creationists call them, you create two new gaps to be filled, giving the creationists even more ammunition in their eyes. If you have ever buried a pet, you know that usually the remains disappear in a decade or two without leaving a trace. It takes rare fluke conditions to preserve a corpse for hundreds of millions of years. We are lucky to have as complete a fossil record as we do.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)