Space Daily·2 min read·medium
Birds are not descended from dinosaurs - they are dinosaurs, a living branch of the theropod family that survived the asteroid and now fills the world with more than 10,000 species
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This article explains the biological classification of birds as living members of the theropod dinosaur family. It clarifies that birds are not merely descendants of dinosaurs, but are biologically classified as dinosaurs themselves.
The pigeon on the windowsill is a dinosaur. Not the descendant of one. One. This is not a rhetorical flourish. It is the plain consequence of how biologists now classify living things. Birds sit inside the group Theropoda, the same branch that produc... [6012 chars]
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