Transitional fossils not proof of evolution?

There have been a couple of threads on Whale evolution recently (mostly driven by a now-banned member called randman). In my opinion they never really went anywhere so it might be fun if you can get another one past the admins.See Pakicetus being presented with webbed feet, and A Whale of a Tale and Land Mammal to Whale transition: fossils.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after

Bats have wings similar to birds!?It's late at night here and I'm about to turn into a pumpkin so I don't have time to do the searches to dig up the info to show you, but the plain fact is there that the structure of bird wings and bat wings are competely different from each other.Essentially bird wings are based on bones analogous to our arm bones whereas bat wings are based on bones analagous to our fingers.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after

I think what Lithoid-Man is saying is that the fossil pictured on the AiG site is of the genus Mesolimulus. I'm a complete know-nothing on this but if you put Solnhofen and horseshoe into Google you will find lots of references to Mesolimulus fossils - specifically Mesolimulus walchi.There are a few (and it is very few) references to Limulus walchi fossils from Solnhofen. It would take somebody who knows their fossils to say what the one pictured on AiG is. Actually given how few references to Limulus walchi there are I wonder if they are misidentifications.Edit: I see from the phylogeny that Belfry posted that there is no such thing as Limulus walchi so I guess they are indeed misidentifications or mistakes and should (I guess?) be Mesolimulus walchi.Edited by MangyTiger, : Add update about non-existence of Limulus walchi.

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