Are birds dinosaurs?

>>2355183
yeah, they have a perforate acetabulum, pygostyle, synsacrum, cannon bone (fused tarsus), reduced manual and pedal digits, single occipital, feathers, wishbone, digitigrade stance, antorbital fenestra, fifth trochanter, semilunate carpal, pneumatic axial and appendicular skeleton, sclerotic ring, gastralia, reduction of the caudal series, ascending process of the astragalus, some other shit I can't remember off the top of my head.

all of which are found in dinosaurs and some of which are found only in dinosaurs.

obviously.
Tyrannosaurus are closer to birds than to Triceratops.

>>2355183
pretty much, yeah. why you ask?

>Birds could be turned into giant flying dinosaurs
Why are they not turned us into shit?

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What a neat thread. I love this board

>>2355201
evolution is a bitch