are dinosaurs related to birds?
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The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic Era. A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany.
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Chickens 'closer to dinosaurs' than other birds. New research suggests that chickens have experienced fewer gross genomic changes than other birds as they evolved from their dinosaur ancestor. ... These small packages of gene-rich material are thought to have been present in their dinosaur ancestors.
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Many prehistoric animal groups are popularly conceived of as dinosaurs, such as ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and pelycosaurs (especially Dimetrodon), but are not classified scientifically as dinosaurs, and none had the erect hind limb posture characteristic of true dinosaurs.
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Cassowaries are closely related to emus and more distantly related to ostriches, rheas, and kiwis. All of these birds, known as ratites, are flightless. Cassowaries have small vestigial wings tipped with a small claw that probably serves no purpose.
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Ostriches and emus are both ratites — members of a group of large flightless birds endemic to the Southern Hemisphere. ... “Ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, kiwis, moas and elephant birds really are more closely related to each other than they are to any other birds,” he wrote.
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More than 70 million years ago, a creature roaming Earth's ancient wetlands may have looked like a duck and hunted like a duck—but it was really a dinosaur related to Velociraptor. ... Few other known dinosaurs display Halszkaraptor's apparent zeal for semi-aquatic living.
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Cranes are in the order Gruiformes, along with rails and their relatives. Storks are in the order Ciconiiformes. ... Both cranes and storks fly with their necks outstretched, unlike similar-looking herons, which retract their necks in flight. Storks are more nearly related to herons than cranes are.
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Evolution of Feathers. Tail feather of a blue-fronted Amazon parrot. Birds evolved from dinosaurs, but the origin of their feathers may trace back even deeper in time, to the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, like the fossil at left.
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Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Previously Thought. Dinosaurs still walk—and fly—among us: We call them birds. Most paleontologists think birds descended from a group of winged dinosaurs, and thus dinos never went completely extinct.
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Summary: The rapid extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago gave rise to a stunning variety of bird species over the next few million years, according to new research. ... The researchers also showed that owls are closely related to toucans and hornbills and that falcons are closely related to parrots and songbirds.
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Yes. In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.
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They first evolved from theropod dinosaurs over 150 million years ago in what is now China. But the word avian has more of a role in taxonomy than anything else. Birds are classified taxonomically first belonging to the the class of vertebrates that are birds.
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Are all the theropod dinosaurs extinct? No, theropods are a monophyletic group that includes birds.
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T. Rex Linked to Chickens, Ostriches. The closest living relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex are birds such as chickens and ostriches, according to research published today in Science (and promptly reported in the New York Times).
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Birds have feathers and hollow bones, which separates them from all other living animals. They also lay hard-shelled eggs (reptile eggs have soft, leathery shells). Most birds can fly while most other animals, besides insects, cannot, and their wing is basically their arm, with feathers creating the flight surfaces.
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Technically, birds are indeed reptiles. Birds descended from the very first reptile. Birds are also dinosaurs because they descended from a dinosaur.