Balaur Bondoc, a Velociraptor-like dinosaur from the Hateg area.
I had an afternoon off while in Romania in March,2015, so Brother Florin Doboş took me to the dinosaur museum in Haţeg. During the late Cretaceous period Haţeg had been an island and home to some interesting creatures. The Dinosaur Museum of Transylvania in Haţeg is where school children are “indoctrinated” in evolution. The bones and a life-sized reproduction of the famous Balaur Bondoc are on display. But the details are telling: no neck vertebrae or skull bones have been found. How do they know what the head looked like? No tail vertebrae have been found. How do they know what the tail looked like? The Balaur Bondoc model on display has contour feathers, flight feathers, and wing-like forearms. But no feathers were found at all. Why are feathers displayed on the model? The janitor snickered and told me that the feathers on the model were actually from four turkeys! And this model of Balaur Bondoc – with its fake head and fake tail and fake feathers – is shown to school children as factual science!