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
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…
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