Was a 12-meter-tall,
stocky,
cold blooded,
terrestrial life form that was covered in scales.
" Well, I’ve studied bird skulls for 25 years and I don't see any similarities whatsoever. I just don't see it . . . . The [theory of] theropod origins of birds, in my opinion, will be THE GREATEST EMBARRASSMENT of paleontology of THE 20TH CENTURY.” 1
"There are insurmountable problems with that theory. . . Beyond what we have just reported, there is the time problem in that superficially bird-like dinosaurs occurred some 25 million to 80 million years after the earliest known bird, which is 150 million years old. 2
“IT’S BIOPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to evolve flight from such large bipeds with foreshortened forelimbs and heavy, balancing tails." 3