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An asteroid strike 66 million years ago devastated the dinosaurs. But today’s birds are proof there were a few survivors.
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Birds are exceptionally diverse, with more than 10,000 known species-all of them the descendants of dinosaurs. Modern birds consist of 247 families and 10,731 species, more than any other vertebrate group except fish. The latest genetic clues and fossil finds suggest that at least three lineages of modern birds arose during the Cretaceous period and survived the mass extinction. These discoveries are helping us better understand how birds evolved and how they’re related to each other, from the tiny hummingbird to the towering ostrich.
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[@NatGeo]

Birds have certain traits which have lead many scientists to believe they are modern-day dinosaurs. What are your thoughts on dinosaurs being connected to our feathered friends?

[@sabibarahman7278]

National Geographic I think some of the species dinosaurs became birds, not all of them.

[@vukhoi3355]

I thought is 65 million years ago !

[@Ranstone]

Avian hip+leg structure lacks mobility compared to dinosaurs. (This is because they had little need, as they can fly.) ((This hip+leg structure is the reason for that iconic avian "waddle")) Avian hip+leg structures are less evolved than dinosaurs, lacking certain locomotion, and ther is no advantage for avians to evolve away from the "previous" hip+leg structure of dinosaurs. Against what Hollywood tells you, a species cannot "De-evolve" into an earlier state. Flight is not seen in most dinosaurs, and the flighted dinosaurs share an extremely distant relative from their non flighted relatives. *My conclusion* : No, I can't agree; birds cannot have evolved from dinosaurs. More likely, they both share a near pre-dino-relative that happened to evolve aesthetically similarly. And before you laugh, in 1975, if you claimed, within an evolutionary academic circle that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, you'd be laughed out of the room.... (Some were) 1975... Ten years later, it was being taught in schools.

[@cdavis5224]

National Geographic birds are a form of coelurosaurian therapod dinosaur.

[@globin3477]

Kick Saunders What about wishbones? only birds and theropods have them; it's very unlikely they evolved twice.

[@effigytormented]

When I was a kid: I really wish dinosaurs were still alive. Adult me: I wish dinosaurs would stop pooping on everything I own outside.

[@AM-nz6pn]

Me everyday: Fried Dinosaur MmMmMm

[@whitegold2960]

@@AM-nz6pn Kentucky Fried Dinosaur

[@Irongiantman007]

The disrespect that dinosaurs get nowadays from mammals is like poetic justice

[@mctavishsoap4218]

😂😂😂😂

[@Meeeeeee3282]

Ark reference?

[@helium73]

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck: It's a dinosaur.

[@carlostheroach4596]

Quack

[@thegrammarpolice368]

@@carlostheroach4596 I thought you were a goose? If you don't know what sound to make, may I suggest "hjonk?"

[@thegrammarpolice368]

quack

[@carlostheroach4596]

let me sleep hahah no I’m not a goose or a duck I’m a DiNOsaUr

[@landshark9992]

Scientifically, yes

[@gravixy3499]

So I could have a Dino as a pet. 😱

[@aliens3219]

NE Kid Productions just be prepared to never sleep in again

[@almazzagitov9799]

No. You have not dinosaur, you have their closest relarive, not his descendant.

[@almazzagitov9799]

Relative*

[@rieldex]

Алмаз Загитов no, birds are dinosaurs. the clade dinosauria is the ancestor of tyrannosaurus, triceratops and brontosaurus and all its relatives. thus, birds are dinosaurs, the last lineage of theropods. they evolved directly from dinosaurs, they ARE dinosaurs. you can even look up cretaceous birds. theyre not just “related” to dinosaurs, they are dinos. thats like saying... humans are “related” to mammals.

[@almazzagitov9799]

@@rieldex among the whole history of Maniraptora they had evolved to fly only in Early Cretaceous of China, but even at this time bird already spread in same environment as flying raptors. And after disappearing of raptor-birds, they hadn't appear further. Also, the hypothesis of birds as descendants of dinosaurs is doubtful because of lack of transitional forms. For example, Archaeopteryx already was a bird, and apart some dinosaurs and birds flight was achieved by Enantiornis, that means that flight and bird-like skeleton plan could be a result of convergent evolution

[@welcometothestream8860]

KFC: Kentucky fried carnotaurus

[@gallopinggopro2302]

we literally eat the most fascinating and prehistoric animals in the world... carnosaurus... *cries in tiny arms*

[@bm-ub6zc]

i didn't like they make it sound, that to say that birds are dinosaurs, is more like an intellectual scenario kind of thing. this is not just an interesting way of seeing it, like a philosophical question. no, birds are LITERALLY dinosaurs, as an official fact.

[@Jaydencyk]

Every day birds fly to my house and I release I have been seeing modern days Dinosaur 😮

[@andrewstephen9096]

We have just discovered what a real, living dinosaur would have sounded like..... "Quack...quack!!!"

[@amn2760]

Dinosaurs didnt went extinct, after the K-Pg extinction, dinos decided to live in a new generation of life on earth by ditching their teeth and tails and developed beaks and feathers

[@ksspqf6016]

I once saw tiny dinosaur footprints in the snow and thought to myself *oh my god what is this* then i realised *oh yes birds are dinosaurs*

[@TheChurchHistoryChannel]

Bird Up!

[@QuadiePoo]

1:05. What a gorgeous bird!

[@Karl.Jayce-DE]

Antarctica is hiding so many epic fossils

[@caylya7869]

Birds are like how humans are still considered ape’s because we evolved from apes. They are also like lemurs and other primates that don’t look like monkeys or apes.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

tripe

[@caylya7869]

@@Dr.IanPlect What?

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@caylya7869 "Birds are like how humans are still considered ape’s because we evolved from apes." - no, what a descendant evolved from doesn't necessarily dictate what they are now. In both cases (birds>dinosaurs, humans>apes), they are still regarded as part of the larger group as they have the traits of that group - I want to be clear on the distinction. 'Because we evolved from' is the part that fails; we also evolved from lobe-finned fish and are within that group, but we are not lobe-finned fish ourselves, so here is an example where 'because we evolved from' fails. It's the traits we have now that determines grouping and classification "They are also like lemurs and other primates that don’t look like monkeys or apes." - this is just nonsense; lemurs are neither apes nor monkeys, so the analogy with birds fails completely.

[@x-foliage-x]

​@@Dr.IanPlect actually we are lobe finned fish. loser.

[@timur5241]

Yes they are

[@teawrecks1243]

🎵 Denver, the last dinosaur! He's just a bird and nothing more! 🎵

[@dom9300]

Its Cool that my cockatiel was a dinosaur

[@howardmunro5464]

Zebras, Ponies, Mules, and Horses were descended from Eohippus, Pliohippus, Mesohippus, And MerriChippus.

[@sammidul4080]

so dinosaurus is not exstict after all

[@cj597]

sam midul yes, they are. dinosaurs and birds are not the same species.

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

charlie First, birds (Aves) and Dinosaurs are not species but groups or clades Second, birds are theropod saurichians and therefore they are dinosaurs just like how bats and whales are mammals

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

And no, sam, dinosaurs are not extinct

[@sammidul4080]

and we are descendants of dinosaurus it self, right?

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

sam midul No Dinosaurs aren't that old The last common ancestor between dinosaurs and mammals was extinct waaaay before the first dinosaurs appeared

[@vivianwang5151]

Dinosaur is the earlier bird, bird is the dinosaur for today, also is the dragon from the legion.

[@LindaMerchant-pm8vn]

Pterodactyls remind me of modern cardinals

[@edessini3124]

...And the scientists are still uncertain as to how!??? Maybe because they can freaking fly, they can cover a huge distances and migrate to find food.

[@G0die16]

but we know birds are dinosaurs and we know how, with evolution since almost a 100 millions of years since archaeopteryx show up in the Jurassic

[@rhthehuman866]

Microraptors and sinosauroptorexes could fly like modern day birds, lol. Most of the birds of the past couldn't fly because their wings weren't big enough and they were too big.

[@Vort317545]

Quote by Plato: "Necessity is the mother of invention." and it's also true about evolution. Ok, so what I'd like to know is what were the little dinosaurs doing. What environment or nitch in the ecosystem back then did that inhabit that necessitated the adaptation to flight? Where they cliff dwelling or arboreal (living in trees), etc??

[@richardblazer8070]

Well, many theropod dinosaurs closely related to birds were small and arboreal, hunting insects, small reptiles, and mammals. They already had feathers, so they were further adapted as gliding structures, which is common among arboreal creatures, as it slows falls and allows for longer jumps.

[@iniuram8231]

yes birds are dinosaurs but there are some differences birds have thin skeletons, short torsos and almost vertical stance, have wings, lack teeth and tails, have breastbone and syrinx, toe (first finger) touches the ground (opposable toe) dinosaurs are the opposite have thick bones, long torsos and horizontal stance, have arms, have teeth and tails, lack breastbone and syrinx, toe (first finger) doesn't touch the ground (non-opposable toe)

[@AverageAlien]

Yes that's called evolution.

[@iniuram8231]

@@AverageAlien thanks for telling me. i wouldn't know without you.

[@mikewilson3836]

Does that mean the pterodactyl was ahead of its time?

[@richardblazer8070]

Well, not really, pterosaurs were just a separate group of animals to evolve flight, like insects did before, and birds and bats would do later.

[@archive2500]

You can say that.

[@spatrk6634]

pterosaurs and pterodactyls is not a dinosaur. its a lizard

[@richardblazer8070]

@@spatrk6634 Pterosaurs are not lizards they are ornithodirans.

[@spatrk6634]

​@@richardblazer8070 yes, not a dinosaur.

[@gauravvj1090]

Did the astroid really killed the dinosaur or it helped in their extinction

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

Gaurav vj It helped During the late Cretaceaous, dinosaurs still ruled most of their environments, but the diversity of many groups plumeted by that time Maybe the non avian dinosaurs wouldn't have gone extinct, but they certainly would have undergone a strong decline anyway

[@Ranstone]

No, it didn't kill them all. What it (supposedly) did was cast millions of tons of debris into the atmosphere, creating a curtain of dust that floated around for years, dimming the light, which lessened the plant life, which starved the herbivore dinos, which made food scarce for the carnivore dinos. Everyone starved. No working explanation as to why the carnivores died, when ancestors of large game had already evolved, has been given. (That I've seen.) Most scientific theorys are full of holes. It takes a real scientist to admit that. Dons't mean they're wrong though. I just means we need to polish them a little... Or a lot...

[@CuzicanAerospace]

Backing up Gandalf's point -- few extinctions are caused by a single event. Usually there are already multiple stressors, like climate changes, in play by the time the coup de grace comes.

[@icantucant7712]

Ofcourse they are!!!! Finaly iam not crazy 😅

[@shockal7269]

Yes, they are dinosaurs, but they're not the dinosaurs we wanted

[@ngjimmy338]

Ok

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Now these dinosaur descendants are fascinated by humans like other animals.

[@fairybreadcat100]

the main thing that killed the dinos was the smoke and quake from the astroyed

[@fwogboi]

yes!

[@hydro.pl.27]

As much as I love Dinosaurs most of it is based upon hypothesis; especially, when you’re talking about something that that goes back millions of years ago. So like history the best way to know about it is to have been there or at least lived it to know what really happened. Point is, unless a time machine is invented no way will anyone figure it out on how all Eras took place all that time ago.

[@ryoushii]

JokerSins 27 so how do you know anything happens unless you personally witness it? How do you know you were born? What evidence can you offer other than second or third hand accounts of this supposed event. You don’t even know you were born. There’s a philosophical category for this type of epistemology, that’s largely an artifact of college philosophy courses.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

It's not a hypothesis. It is considered a theory. Which is well backed up by data.

[@archive2500]

It is not a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a claim that still needs a further investigation whether if its real or not. Dinosaur-bird link has been supported and tested many times and only the evidence keeps piling up throught time. It is already a fact that is scientifically explained (called a theory).

[@NoName-hg6cc]

It's actually a well known and proved theory

[@RIXRADvidz]

what's not discussed is the variety of dinosaurs. the proto-avian T-rex and two legged uprights, and the four legged sauropods that evolved into reptiles and the proto-mammals. Favorable Conditions made for the various evolutionary tracks, some continued, some didn't. so now we have birds that survived from the proto-avian dinosaurs. think big chickens, Really Bigg Chickens.

[@filipbatora7523]

Where did you read that sauropods evolved into reptiles and proto-mammals? These two groups existed at the same time as dinosaurs.

[@naufaltriandiroziqi8538]

So, is Chickens can be catagorize as dinosaurs too?

[@richardblazer8070]

naufal roziqi yes

[@waspanimations7037]

Yep ever single bird

[@naufaltriandiroziqi8538]

So basically my favorite food is dinosaur

[@sticktheok]

EpoXy 1 yep

[@samsfoilcreations9006]

To say that birds aren’t dinosaurs would be like saying bats aren’t mammals.

[@archive2500]

Exactly. I do not get how people do not understand this. Dinosaur is a higher rank and bird is a lower rank which is inside the dinosaur group the same way as the whales being inside the mammal group or as you said, bats in mammals.

[@devilsstrikegaming8695]

@@archive2500 what do u mean by rank ??? Birds were pure therapod Dinosaurs with teeth, Hand claws and a tail 65mill years ago. Evolution happens so quickly.Thats the reason birds look nothing like dinosaurs now. Remember ancestors of modern humans 65mil year ago looked like a Hamster or Rats and used to live underground and look now how fast the evolution had worked on those creature to make them humans. Same goes for Birds. Birds may look different now but they were more like raptors 65mill years ago.

[@archive2500]

@@devilsstrikegaming8695 That does not take away that birds are still classified as dinosaurs. If you say that bats and whales are mammals, then you must say that birds are dinosaurs, no matter how long the time span of their evolution to keep the logic consistent. Unless, you are being arbitrary and just having your own definitions yourself. This definition of yours basing solely on appearance by the way is more likely paraphyly and polyphyly classification. They are problematic classifications that does not show phylogenetic relationships among different groups and does not allow you to put groups in a written form, AKA taxonomy.

[@archive2500]

@@devilsstrikegaming8695 "Ranks" are groups that are designated fixed points in their evolutionary characteristics which are always meant to be monophyletic, meaning it includes of its descendants. Once you came out from a group, no matter how long you diverged from it, you are still considered to be a part of that group. Birds came from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs came from dinosaurs, they are reptiles. Humans came from apes, they are apes. Apes came from mammals, they are apes. Whales came from mammals, they are mammals. Mammals came from vertebrates, they are vertebrates. Keep the logic consistent. All groups come from a larger group (obviously).

[@amn2760]

To say that people who believed that dinosaurs aren't real are just as stupid as flat-earthers

[@frilink]

Dad, what happen to dinosaurs? Dad: KFC

[@amn2760]

You mean KFTR (Kentucky Fried Trex) 😂

[@huletnadof313]

Don't forget turkey on Thanksgiving, roast duck, fried eggs, and down pillows.

[@iampixel4086]

me: goes to museum also me: *look at all those chickens*

[@dhruvnarain3948]

That is the smartest comment I have seen

[@Andreas_42]

Eating chicken nuggets will never be the same again. 😁

[@mr.heghog858]

@@Andreas_42 Dino nuggets

[@something402]

i love this comment

[@BenitoiteBaTiSi]

*"ancient chickens"*

[@safron2442]

Life, uh, finds a way.

[@jmcsquared18]

😂😂😂 Thank you, that was brilliant.

[@anubhavsingh986]

It's a dialogue of jurassic park

[@titan133760]

Must go faster

[@LordDirus007]

@@anubhavsingh986 The way it is written. That's a Rick and Morty line

[@macdrown3892]

Maybe my favorite use of that line.

[@paleomotion985]

"A distant cousin of theropods was archaeopteryx" Archaeopteryx wasn't a distant cousin of theropods, it was a theropod just like modern birds are

[@trippharris5334]

Paleo Motion That's what I was thinking! It was a cool video but that part bugged me.

[@jamesveerdog2723]

You are Absolutely 100% wrong.

[@davidls187]

Yep, therapods. They're even part of the same close clade, the Miniraptora

[@eduardofreitas8336]

@@jamesveerdog2723 he is absolutely 100% right.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@@eduardofreitas8336 James is just dumb.

[@eduardofreitas8336]

Wait wait wait. Archaeopteryx, like all birds, are not RELATED to theropods, they ARE theropods.

[@ryoushii]

Eduardo Freitas true, a specific sub branch of theropods, but still theropods.

[@FA-ft9sq]

Yup. It's the limitation of our current taxonomic model. There is also a great debate regarding what is considered a fish since some taxonomist sees everything that derived from the early fishes all the way to all surviving tetrapods, including us, as fishes.

[@djengo77]

"Wait wait wait. Archaeopteryx, like all birds, are not RELATED to theropods, they ARE theropods." LOL So theropods are not RELATED to theropods? LOL LOL

[@thelordnaevis4946]

@@djengo77 they’re talking about the Archaeopteryx specifically

[@djengo77]

@@thelordnaevis4946 Um, what (if any) point are you trying to make?

[@BFKAnthony817]

I ate a dinosaur for dinner, it was Dee-licious. ;)

[@kikhuy8152]

u killed it

[@TheRojo387]

A turkey? A duck?

[@randomstuffswithrrd]

@@TheRojo387 chicken

[@willcomedevil3916]

chicken T-rex..... hahaha!

[@bannana_bean1266]

Lmao if we live at the same time as the dinosaurs before its turning tables lol

[@eclair6910]

It's funny how many people still don't know that birds are dinosaurs.

[@edwardsinger7644]

I only just found out last time I went to the museum. Went thirty-one years not knowing.

[@bunnybird9342]

I have so much experience with budgies and lovebirds and. Those things are basically little dinosaurs and anybody who insists birds aren't dinosaurs has never sat down and actually looked at a bird.

[@a-walpatches6460]

Even more people think pterosaurs are flying dinosaurs.

[@romanr.301]

Well a lot of people were likely taught the (slightly dated) notion that birds are _descended_ from dinosaurs. The conclusion that birds simply _are_ dinosaurs was a more recent consensus that hasn’t fully replaced the view in the popular conscience that birds are merely the descendants of, but different from, the dinosaurs.

[@bunnybird9342]

@@a-walpatches6460 pterosaurs were a separate group of reptiles and so were plesiosaurs. Also not really relevant here but there was one time I got in an argument with some classmates who kept insisting crocodilians are dinosaurs when I kept correcting them saying that they are a separate group of reptiles.

[@Tsumami__]

Let me save y’all 2 minutes and 54 seconds: Yes. They are dinosaurs.

[@archive2500]

Period.

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

I want to watch

[@Javierm0n0]

Remember kids, when u eat a chicken, youre eatin a modern day raptor. Happy feasting! (This is a joke)

[@seanaudio.]

Free range dinosaur

[@quamne]

From now on chicken farms will be called jurassic parks

[@MichaelSHartman]

So the Jurassic Park raptors going into a kitchen was potentially dangerous for them, or the perfect place for revenge?

[@sabibarahman7278]

This is not a joke. It's actually true.

[@eeeeea]

Sabiba Rahman because it's a joke it doesn't mean it's not true.

[@logantrimble006]

Even names like raptor means "bird of prey", thus it even means "killer", and Gallimimus means "bird mimic". Which goes to show that scientists noticed similarities to birds decades ago.

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Why would not they. Avian dinosaurs looked exactly like birds.

[@blazingtrs6348]

​@@kamrankhan-lj1ng just with teeth, unmodified sternums, unfused fingers, and longer tails

[@pierre-samuelroux9364]

​@@kamrankhan-lj1ngbirds ARE avian dinosaurs

[@Hughjaoses8766]

Raptor does not mean bird of prey. It means "reaper"

[@greatBLT]

That doesn't look very scary. More like a 6-ft turkey!

[@musizlover2008]

Its amazing to see how diverse birds are in every environment. Birds that can swim, run, use tools, see in the dark, zoom into their prey, scavenge, imitate any sound, etc. Just think how the first bird species survived the dinosaur extinction and diversify to fill up most of the ecological niches left empty by that world wide catastrophe. We got birds nearly everywhere in the world and they all came from the same ancestors. I mean, look at Australia. The majority of the fauna species there are descended from a common ancestor and in the isolated continent they diversify to fill positions in the ecosystem. Just imagine what the world would have been if birds didn't survive, what kind of animal class would evolve to fill up the empty positions birds left behind?

[@lemongrab6173]

Cerato shamo, and parrot shamo. You’re welcome.

[@shubhammaurya3671]

After reading your comment, I have another theory why non-avian dino went extinct. Because they all were very much similar to each other. Lack of diversity leads them to extreme competition and may be a steroid or flood was last push they needed to be gone.

[@lemongrab6173]

@@shubhammaurya3671 you do realise the massive difference in modern day oxygen levels ? You also do realise all of them evolved to be larger, in contrast to smaller variants of avian dinos which is why they managed to produce the newer generations of avian species. You are in correct competition is not what wiped out the non avians. There wasn’t even anything left be it oxygen levels or sunlight or vegetation for them to compete over to begin with. The only species that survived were the ones capable of Hibernation for long periods and those that were too small to be effected by the sudden drop in sunlight vegetation and oxygen. This is why there will never be any actual dinosaur resurrections.The massive change of the environment will never support their primitive biology. If low oxygen levels don’t kill the replicated specimens the new species of micro organisms will. That’s why it’ll take decades even after we somehow manage to perfect cloning.

[@pierre-samuelroux9364]

​@@shubhammaurya3671so you just forget dinosaurs were very diverse

[@romanr.301]

@@shubhammaurya3671I really don’t think that’s it. The non-avian dinosaurs were certainly NOT lacking in any diversity. It seems pretty simple to me: the birds that survived were those that were smaller (needing less food), had beaks (to eat tough nuts that toothed birds couldn’t reach, and to not rely on prey-based diets that would doom toothed birds post-asteroid), and that could fly (scouring large areas for food very quickly).

[@PierreAndersson85]

This is so awesome and i am so happy that at least some dinosaurlineage did in fact survive and now flourishes with 10000 species today.

[@alwayschanging5821]

Jesus. It is time for mainstream science and holywood to catch up. This has been known for too long and yet we still have plucked delicious dinos running around our movies... mmm dino definitely tastes like chicken I bet.

[@caiuscosades362]

well frog legs taste like chicken. whats weirds is why mammal meat is so much different than everyone else.

[@Abominatrix650]

Don't forget: There's also turkey and we all know how different turkey and chicken taste. The dinosaurs probably had tastes we'll never even imagine

[@RD1R]

@@Abominatrix650 sorta, but they taste similar. They have a distinct "bird" taste, which comes from their lean protein rich fast twitch bodies. Alligator tastes a ton like chicken, even down to the consistency of the meat, and they diverged before theropods even existed! Dino meat probably tasted like a lot of variations of chicken or other bird meat.

[@trvth1s]

@@RD1R Id say it all depeds on the animals diet. My pops ate eagle and he said it was disgusting, nothing like chicken. I always thought ornithopods would taste delicious but an animal like trex was probably gross

[@revampedrenegotiate]

@@RD1R I mean, Crocodiles are the closest relatives to dinosaurs and birds are dinosaur so they would kinda taste like chickens

[@leehyunsong7001]

Dinosaurs never dies off they just become smaller. Tears in my eyes!

[@syafiqjabar]

Some actually got as big as a typical Mesozoic theropod, like the terror birds, moa and elephant birds.

[@sagnik3556]

smol dinos

[@evenhartwick4422]

dinosaurs to birds are the biggest downgrade in the history of nature. cool you can fly now but you gave up everything that made you the dominate species on the planet

[@pierre-samuelroux9364]

Have you heard of ostriches or emus?

[@joebaumgart1146]

An astroid didn't kill the dinosaurs. Chuck Norris did, and he'll do it again!

[@Thewildlifeenthusiast123]

Chuck Norris is the apex predator of the Morrison formation!!!!

[@masterplus6002]

Syrinxes aren't "only found in today's quacking water fowl", they are found in many groups of birds.

[@ZennExile]

Is this a question people still need an answer to? What kinda derp doesn't know birds came from Avian dinosaurs in 2018?

[@h.y.4371]

gotta remember, there are those that deny dinosaurs' existence, and also those who think the world is flat. welcome to 2018, my friend.

[@Rainygirl3100]

Heavily religious people, that's who. You know, the ones who deny every aspect of science simply because they believe in God. And no, I have nothing against religion, plenty of religious people have mixed beliefs or respect scientific views despite their own, but it's usually the SERIOUSLY religious people who refuse to face the facts of fossil/geological records in order to stay faithful to what they know. Personally, I like to think that both creation and evolution happened.

[@pianoluver1222]

Every freakin day... I teach middle school students (not science, but still) and I have about half of students who are strong evolution deniers because their religious upbringings... very annoying to have a 13 year old shout in the middle of class that you’re wrong and you need Jesus... (it comes up when I teach Greek and Latin roots, because most of those word parts apply to science).

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

+Elendil - Feel sorry for you bro.

[@Nannowatts19482]

@@h.y.4371 There's also the people who don't think you can study dinosaurs because you can't see them, or some bs

[@AzlianaLyana]

Nice information. It's a amazing how even a single species like the iaai can lead to such a diverse number of modern day species. Had it not been for some major events that wiped them out, we'd most likely be living in a whole different landscape right now. Perhaps our own existence would have been different too? Thanks for sharing National Geographic.

[@7ItalianStallion]

Azliana Lyana thank you for stating the obvious. Had it not been for you I would probably be reading something useful by now.

[@jamesveerdog2723]

Makes you feel like the events on earth were made for humans doesn’t it

[@doburu4835]

@@jamesveerdog2723 meh.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@@jamesveerdog2723 no, as same could be told by ants, viruses, plancton...etc

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@@jamesveerdog2723 its like saying after falling on your nose...it seems like that floor was made to hit my nose.

[@shoulders-of-giants]

short answer: yes

[@dataicey6204]

ahahaahaaaaaahahhaahahahaha

[@archive2500]

Period.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

I'm so happy that the debate finally settled the questions of Warm vs cold bloodedness and how Birds fit Cladistically. It's nice to know that Dinosaurs are technically no longer extinct, and that the proper cladistic delineation of Avian vs non avian dinosaurs has allowed for a massive and frankly best explaining, examination of the dinosaur family writ large. Still a shame that non avians didn't survive the ELE though.

[@1990Cid]

Dr. Grant was right.

[@madheretic4423]

I knew someone was gonna say something like that.

[@Alatreon2435]

Always has been

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

Yes, they are. All birds are dinosaurs.

[@own4801]

But not all dinosaurs are birds.

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

@@own4801 of course, but I’m referring to the other way around.

[@tylersharp1377]

Kentucky Fried Dinosaur??? 🤔🤔

[@LinkMarioSamus]

I can't unsee dinosaurs whenever I look at birds.

[@AverageAlien]

Same. From their claws, to the way they walk, it all screams raptor

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@AverageAlien And not the abominations from the Jurassic Park movies thank goodness.

[@xweert711]

Wow. I genuinely thought this was common knowledge. I'm pretty disappointed to see that this is being documented in 2018 like this is new information.

[@eeeeea]

xweert711 same

[@bennettfender1546]

xweert711 heck even Jurassic park mentioned this sigh.

[@bennettfender1546]

LegoGuy87 no it should not have for consistency sake.

[@CaspiRose99]

xweert711 ikr

[@daftbence]

Wow. I genuinely thought people have more sense than this. I'm pretty disappointed, I thought you knew no one is born with knowledge, there are millions of kids who don't know this and if a few of them learn it this way it's already worth it.

[@imyou593]

Kang taemu

[@_masssk_]

This video is too easy and simple. It can be more interesting to go deeper in this theme. Also you used word "scientists believe", witch can be turned into "science is a religion". It's not a way to teach people and explaine them the world structure.

[@Justwantahover]

Yep it basically says nothing besides just saying birds come from dinosaurs. And a bit about archaeoctrix (spell) but hardly anything about it. Not mentioned are it's teeth, it's tail and maybe it only glided. It's a transitional form. We are all transitionals, every organism is. But it's maily referred to creatures like archaeoctrix and the platypus. Odd-bods. A seal is another good tranitional between a land animal and a whale type creature.

[@abelmantor7557]

The closest of dinosaurs we got living with us 🐦🦜🕊️🦃🦆

[@diecastworld7962]

I have three pet parakeets and I am a proud owner of three dinosaurs

[@sauce.6758]

theres a reason why theyre referred to as 'non avian dinosaurs'

[@archive2500]

Period. More technical, objective, and appropriate term.

[@fefek1]

I wish there was a movie where something like a made up "hidden gene" actives in birds all across earth and they begin growing slightly bigger and acting like real Dinosaurs causing a apocalypse kind of thing.

[@kojoydesu4107]

I have a great suspicion that Dinosaur at the Mesozoic time were actually acting like a bird...

[@Trev0r98]

Short answer: Yes. Birds are modern-day dinosaurs. They are "avian dinosaurs" (dinosaurs that fly - and even the ones that don't fly).

[@nojusy1992]

How about ostriches and emus?

[@jordangraham-mclean1980]

@@nojusy1992 They are flightless avian dinosaurs. Avian just means bird, bird-like or of or relating to birds, it has nothing to do with flight unless in reference to the ability of many birds to do so.

[@djengo77]

LOL @ "Birds are modern-day dinosaurs." So, when Darwinists say "Dinosaurs evolved into birds", what you mean is "Dinosaurs evolved into [modern-day dinosaurs]", no? Can you give me any examples of dinosaurs evolving into things which you would say are NOT dinosaurs? Or, do dinosaurs evolve exclusively into dinosaurs? Which would be more impressive to you? Dinosaurs evolving into dinosaurs, or dinosaurs evolving into non-dinosaurs?

[@jordangraham-mclean1980]

@@djengo77 you’re in the wrong thread champ

[@Trev0r98]

@@djengo77 Birds were it. Sole survivors of the dinosaur line. Dinosaurs didn't evolve into anything else.

[@Rainygirl3100]

I'm surprised I only saw one comment about how "evolution was wrong" in this comment section lol

[@briantrevino9706]

Evolution is wrong.

[@briantrevino9706]

@Juno Donat YEC

[@firegator6853]

same im happy about that but on the other hand i wanted to make fun of these idiots.... ooh well i guess knowing the truth is better

[@amn2760]

@@briantrevino9706 Stop talking to yourself, if evolution was never true then no creatures should exist today not even us

[@briantrevino9706]

@@amn2760 That doesn't make sense or refute young earth creationism. That unfortunately, is an argument that would be true if evolution was true, but does nothing to prove evolution is true. We are designed our universe is designed and there are laws that are in existence. It is not coincidence. That would take more faith than Believing in God.

[@sherlockholmes1574]

All the time I’ve seen birds are dinosaurs chickens are t-rex but I never interested at all. When I bought a bird I searched and wow it’s amazed me.

[@thevilkids]

Amazing...Evolution is just breathtaking

[@ryoushii]

SummerWine19 I agree. It’s amazing that an entire group of animals thought completely extinct in fact are still thriving and as diverse as they were over 65 million years ago. This is why I love science, every day something amazing is added to our knowledge of the reality around us.

[@jlai8411]

my tiny birds are probably a raptor back in the days

[@MommyLongLegs-le2xh]

My pet isn't a cockatiel, it's a DINOSAUR

[@McKeelix]

Archaeopteryx was not a distant cousin of therapods, nor was it even a close cousin. It literally WAS a therapod. Birds are still therapods.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

"Are Birds modern day Dinosaurs?" According to all scientific evidence: Yes. They are the surviving group of dinosaurs and also one of the most abundant types of vertebrates on earth. Honestly the day this conclusion was reached, there should have been headlines and fanfare and the Jurassic park theme playing.

[@g0atboy207]

- Shows a crocodillian when talking about theropods, which it isn't. Dinosaurs and crocs are related in that they are both archosaurs, but crocs certainly are not theropod - Worse is this video calls archaeopteryx a "distant cousin of birds and theropods", I'll give you the birds but archaeopteryx were literally theropods themselves

[@ryoushii]

G0atboy agreed. They were theropods, but not necessarily in the direct line of avian theropods.

[@amn2760]

T-Rex: Chicken Spinosaurus: Duck or Pelican Ornithomimus,Struthiomimus and Gallimimus: Ostrich and Emu Oviraptor: Parrot or Cassowary Velociraptor: Turkey, Eagle or Hawk

[@susmitasarkar5236]

Bit now they have also stragety to surive in any hostile places like their ancestor

[@own4801]

Mammals have filled in the niche for massive animals.

[@jolus6678]

Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets is solid proof of this

[@alexbowman7582]

Three things about dinosaurs (probably). 1. Dinosaurs had lighter bird like bones enabling the evolution of the largest ever land animals. 2. Dinosaurs probably had bird like more efficient lungs helping the breathing especially in the largest ever land animals. 3. Dinosaurs probably had bird like brains which have tighter, smaller more efficient neurons making the relative intelligence shown in Jurassic Park a possibility.

[@pierre-samuelroux9364]

I have news for you:crows are smart

[@sunshineimperials1600]

Birds aren’t modern-day dinosaurs, they *ARE* dinosaurs.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

"Birds aren’t modern-day dinosaurs, they ARE dinosaurs." - 'modern-day dinosaurs' ALREADY states they are dinosaurs! - you are wrong in stating they aren't modern-day dinosaurs because they are

[@insipidwallflower565]

Recently I’ve gone to a lot of bird stores to find the perfect parrot for me (I’m getting a little Quaker) but I’ve seen so many Macaws this last month. Like 10+ Macaws, and they never fail to amaze me. Everything about them just reminds me of dinosaurs. The way they act especially, but their beak and facial features and expressions too. Beautiful birds but there is something prehistoric about them

[@sageofsixidiots3364]

Saying birds aren't reptiles is like saying whales aren't mammals just Cuz they are morphologically different from the traditional body plan or characteristics of their lineages

[@kronniichiwa9909]

Get to the point. The answer is yes.

[@Hughjaoses8766]

They are 100% dinosaurs. They are the same family as dinosaurs, the Archosaurs

[@Dasple]

They're within the dinosaur actually

[@Dr.Ian-Plect]

@@andrewgonzales6527 "Not all birds are in the Theropod order, which is the order one would have to be in order to be classified as a modern dinosaur." You again ,spewing the same tripe 1. Theropod is not an order, it is member of a group 2. That group is 'Theropoda, and it is a clade, not an order 3. All the birds you listed ARE theropods, they ARE in Theropoda 4. 'Modern dinosaurs' ONLY refers to birds. Birds are the only living dinosaurs, and ALL birds are in the clade Theropoda

[@Thagomizer]

I can't believe Creationists are still training themselves to ignore this.

[@dean1039]

There's something in the eyes of an eagle that remind me of a Velociraptor.

[@rhthehuman866]

Because they are modern day raptors.

[@D0g3yb01]

@@rhthehuman866 So your telling me raptors can fly?

[@rhthehuman866]

@@D0g3yb01 No, they cannot. Raptor just means predatory bird.

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

In a way, it does explain a tiny bit why snake tastes like chicken.

[@lintyscorpion2692]

that's like saying humans are modern day Neanderthals since we are related to them.

[@shroomoid9403]

It's not the same. Humans are related to Neanderthals, but birds literally are avian theropod dinosaurs

[@VersusARCH]

I knew it all along that if any dinosaus survived we'd be eating them 😋

[@classictails8500]

late but humans wouldn't be able to rise to power

[@huletnadof313]

Archaeopteryx is not a distant cousin of theropods. It is a theropod. You need to fix that error.

[@TwennyGeee]

Advanced/ extremely efficient respiratory system is how.

[@G0die16]

Two air sacks

[@BigBoiRedFrog]

Fun fact : Birds are dinosaurs

[@hamstergodfufurufufu8842]

Kentucky fried dino sounds good right now.

[@alienximmortal11]

I used to think dinosaur was more dominant but no we are

[@mascot6418]

I think dinosaurs have been adapted a new way of living as some sorta bird and others.

[@aintkizo]

It's all fun and games, til you see a swarm of dinosaurs flying towards you.

[@fortnitelvr0]

Short answer, Yes

[@seanaudio.]

Bird is the word 🐦

[@amn2760]

Dinos are the words

[@babak147]

Yes actually I did a bunch of research

[@jz00826]

We humans are low key experiencing a modern dinosaur that's successful in population, most feared, most territorial, a dinosaur that's dominating our own cities and parks as we know it ...Canadian Geese!

[@andrewgonzales6527]

Geese are among the species of birds that can’t be classified as dinosaur.

[@bonniemob65]

​@@andrewgonzales6527Literally all birds are classed as dinosaurs - that includes geese.

[@andrewgonzales6527]

@@bonniemob65 I see where I got it wrong now. All dinosaurs are Tetrapods, I thought to be a tetrapod one needed four feet. Turns out even being a descendant of a tetrapod can classify being a tetrapod, even without having four feet.

[@Trentrick_Lamar]

Me in my head: Well, maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than they do with reptiles. Look at the pubic bone: turned backward, just like a bird. Look at the vertebrae: full of airsacs and hollows, just like a bird. And even the word 'raptor' means "bird of prey."

[@StormsandSaugeye]

Me out loud: "That doesn't look very scary. It looks more like a 6 foot Turkey"

[@trvth1s]

ornithischians didnt have airsacs nor hollow bones, they were more like mammals