if it was one of these so called 'transitional fossils' then it should have existed long before birds became a species, yes?
Much of your problem is your definition of transition. To you, it appears that organism A becomes organism B through direct transition
A
10 B
0 to A
5 B
5 to A
0 B
10
Where in reality A
10 B
0 becomes a number of A
x B
10-x some which lines continue, others become extinct. Archeopteryx is of the latter.
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