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That starling at your birdfeeder? It is a dinosaur. The chicken on your dinner plate? Also a dinosaur. That mangy seagull scavenging for chips on the beach? Apart from being disgusting, yet again it is a modern-day dinosaur.
It may seem inconceivable, but birds are living dinosaurs. Our feathered friends evolved from toothy, sharp-clawed, carnivorous dinosaurs who lived 150 million years ago. Birds are dinosaurs in the same sense that humans are a type of mammal, or a frog is a type of amphibian.
So although we often talk about the dinosaurs being extinct, there really are more than 10,000 species of living, breathing, bona fide dinosaurs. In fact, there are more dinosaurs alive today than mammals or reptiles. Read more...
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