Early Bird Swims Like a Duck

If it looks like a duck and
walks like a duck, what is it?

Four million Darwin Years before a meteorite supposedly killed off all the dinosaurs, a web-footed bird was swimming around in Cretaceous fantasyland. Creationists call fowl [pun intended], saying that ducks and geese were created on Day 5 thousands of years ago, not millions. They already know that Deep Time is a myth because they don’t ignore the age implications of dinosaur soft tissue (31 Jan 2025).

Evolutionist moyboys, though, chained as they are to their precious millions of years, have a problem: how did delicate ducks survive with dinosaurs around, and live through a catastrophe so earth-shattering that no sauropod or theropod anywhere in the world survived it? The saga is at risk of unraveling. Watch how they rescue their web of belief.

Vegavis iaai was named for Vega Island in Antarctica where the fossil was discovered. The species had been identified in 2011 with only skull fragments, causing confusion about its classification. Now, a complete skull was found. They say it “was an ancient relative of ducks and geese, but it dived for fish like grebes or loons.” Maybe it was a duck or grebe. Dr Carl Werner has counted dozens of cases where fossils of modern-looking animals and plants were given different genus and species names, simply because they were found in rock layers that Darwinians believe are tens of millions of years old. It’s loony.

In today’s fossil story, remember that Darwinians have a vested interest in calling this dinosaur-era duck “ancient” and “primitive” because it was found in “Cretaceous” rock before most modern bird groups had supposedly evolved. They could never say it looks identical to a modern waterfowl. They can say it was “duck-like.” But if it walked like a duck and quacked like a duck, what was it? Watch the science reporters quack in unison for Darwin:

Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird (Ohio University via Phys.org, 5 Feb 2025). Reader, please be dumbfounded at the credulity of the following quote by this Darwinist reporter:

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today’s waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like…water off a duck’s back.

Millions of mighty dinosaurs of all sizes—some with duck bills—perished, but this duck didn’t give a quack about the global catastrophe? How credible is that? The reporter goes on to say that Antarctica must have provided a refuge from the catastrophe, but that raises two more problems: (1) dinosaur bones are found in the polar regions, too, and (2) what were waterfowl doing swimming in Antarctica?

The writer claims that there was lush vegetation also found in that area. Interesting. The world underwent a dramatic ecological change? Like a global flood, maybe, that buried this fossil? OK, next question: if ducks found a refuge, why didn’t dinosaurs survive in that protected location, too?

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era, when non-avian dinosaurs and a bizarre collection of early birds ruled the globe. Instead, these features place Vegavis in the group that includes all modern birds, representing the earliest evidence of a now widespread and successful evolutionary radiation across the planet.

Given that “radiation” is a synonym for evolutionary diversification, we might call this type of dialect the result of “radiation” damage to the Darwinian brain.

Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered (Live Science, 5 Feb 2025). The faithful Darwinist reporter at Lie Science quotes various evolutionists for interpretations that meet the requirements for the Darwin Party imprimatur. One of them was Juan Benito Moreno, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, who said, “It was surprising to see an incredibly niche ecological feature so early in the evolution.” Think about that.

Another Darwin spokesperson, Daniel Ksepka from a museum in Connecticut, appeals to futureware and miracles—tried and true methods of theory preservation.

“Vegavis seems to have been a bit of an odd duck,” he told Live Science in an email. “Provided the phylogeny is correct, a duck-like bill must have either evolved during the Cretaceous Period but been lost by Vegavis, or evolved multiple times independently. It will be interesting to see if future fossils confirm one of these scenarios.”

The Darwin in the tale
The Darwin in the tale
Hi ho, scenario,
The Darwin in the tale.

Maybe Vegavis got its fashion statement from a duck-billed dinosaur. But did the bird pay the bill for the royalties?

Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird (New Scientist, 5 Feb 2025). All the reporters use the same artwork by Mark Witton that was embargoed for release today by Big Science Media, to create the impression of a big media blitz (7 Feb 2013). Let’s see how reporter James Woodford treats this tale. He calls on another Darwin Party priestess to weave a story of why a modern-looking bird was “evolving” millions of years ago.

Jacqueline Nguyen at the Australian Museum in Sydney says this ancient species has been subject to a lot of debate among avian evolutionary scientists, but the new research helps settle the argument.

(Note: Darwinists don’t mind debates. They know they will always win, because only Darwinists are allowed to debate each other in the Royal Media of the Empire.)

“Together, [the evidence] suggests that Vegavis looked and foraged quite differently from its duck and geese relatives, and that this may have been an ‘evolutionary experiment’ in the early history of this group of birds,” she says.

So here is the new plot line for the press: evolution was experimenting. This proves that evolution is an idol. It is a mythical person, with intellect, emotions and will. It even follows the scientific method; it decides to experiment.

Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity (Torres, O’Conner et al., Nature, 5 Feb 2025). Here we see where the Darwinist storytellers got their plot line: “the earliest anseriform divergences were marked by evolutionary experiments,” the authors of the formal paper say. See sophoxymoronia in the Darwin Dictionary.

How to Plan an Evolutionary Experiment

‘Let’s try a duck bill,’ says Tinker Bell. The Leper Con thinks, ‘Nah, too complicated. We already used that on dinosaurs and it took a lot of lucky mutations.’ Tinker Bell brainstorms, ‘OK, we’ll save that for the platypus. What if we make it swim and catch fish?’ The Leper Con thinks that is a good but demanding plot line. ‘It will need webbed feet, a slender bill and waterproof feathers. It will need modified eyes to be able to see under water. Too many mutations required.’ ‘No problem,’ Tinker Bell replies. ‘It’s just a matter of time. All things are possible given enough time. Like Father Wald said, in time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. Time itself performs the miracles. I’ll start the lottery run for the chance mutations we will need. By the way, how did you contract leprosy, Con Man?’ ‘Mutations.’

Millions of imaginary Darwin Yearzzzzzz go by, and by, and by, and then: Stuff Happens! The experiment is a success. Darwinism is saved again!

But the experiment was rigged. No experimental result can be verified until confirmed by Darwinian Theory. All evolutionary biologists and mainstream science reporters learned that in school.

The Clonemaker: Professor Charley hypnotizes a new class of loyal science reporters. (Grok/XI)