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Posted: 10 Nov 2023

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Seagulls, and all other birds, evolved from dinosaurs. That makes them dinosaurs. Put another way, birds can trace their heritage back to the common ancestor of dinosaurs, and therefore are every bit as dinosaurian as T.rex, Brontosaurus, or Triceratops, the same way my cousins and I are Brusattes because we trace our lineage back to the same grandfather. Birds are simply a subgroup of dinosaurs, just like the tyrannosaurs or the sauropods – one of the many branches of the dinosaur family tree.

It’s a notion that’s so important, it bears repeating. ‘Birds are dinosaurs.’ Yes, it can be hard to get your head around. …….

This means that dinosaurs are still among us today. We’re so used to saying that dinosaurs are extinct, but in reality, over ten thousand species of dinosaurs remain, as integral parts of modern ecosystems, sometimes as our food and our pets, and in the case of seagulls, sometimes as pests. Indeed, the vast majority of dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, when that latest Cretaceous world of T.rex versus Triceratops, of the giant Brazilian sauropods and Tranyslvanian island dwarfs, were plunged into chaos. The reign of the dinosaurs ended and a revolution followed, forcing them to cede their kingdom to other species. But as a few stragglers made it through, a few dinosaurs that, had what it took to endure. The descendants of these remarkable survivors live on today as birds, the enduring legacy of over 150 million years of dinosaur domination, of a dead empire. ~ Page 270/272

RISE and FALL of the DINOSAURS
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