The T-rex had feathers, hollow bones, and was most likely warm

>>8570036
Yes. Or you can argue that birds are dinosaurs. In the next 50 years expect school textbooks to explain that avian dinosaurs survived the global extinction.

>>8570036
They're even more terrifying as birds. Birds are fucking crazy, a big dumb lizard is just going to eat you but a 30 foot tall parakeet might enjoy slowly pulling you apart to listen to the noises you make.

>>8570036
Why is this surprising, considering birds are literally the remnants of dinosaurs?

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>>8570055
Terror Birds would fuck shit up

>>8570064
Plz no, scary. :(

>>8570036
T rex was a dinosaur. So are birds. Yes, birds are dinosaurs.

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If that's true then that could mean that maybe dinosaurs could talk!

>>8570036
Technically, sice reptiles came first, birds are in the clade reptile

>>8570036
And no, T-Rex can't be taxonomically classified as a bird. Even though it does have some bird traits like feathers, hollow bones etc. It lacks other traits such as a beak, fused finger bones, and other features

>>8570725
But can a bird be classified as Dinosaur ?

no, birds/reptiles are descendants of dinosaurs

>>8570036

>11 posts in
>No one else noticed that the "T-Rex" has a third finger

Taxonomically speaking, that's more likely an Allosaurus.

Also, Archaeopteryx is taxonomically a different branch of dinosaur. Both branches of dinosaur share a root ancestor, like how humans and lions both evolved from early mammals. However, just because Archaeopteryx is a dinosaur and the likely ancestor of birds does not mean all other dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds.

For example, our root ancestor had fur, tigers had fur. However, human beings do not have fur, except for "bears." There's enough taxonomic differences to put whatever is in that photo could be put in a taxonomic group.

For example, if it were a live today it would be classified as "QUIT STUDYING IT AND GET IN THE JEEP ALREADY! THAT THING IS GOING TO EAT US!!!"

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>>8570063
Because dinosaurs were pictured as big reptiles since forever, not as birds.

Dinosaurs evolved from birds

>>8570036
How could it be a bird if it was warm blooded?

>>8570064
>ftw no Emu War.
>tfw no Terror Bird leading the Emu Army.
Fucking science is bullshit.

>>8573068
>Geese and emus come from T-rex
Spooky.

>>8571297
In modern taxonomy they are indeed considered to be dinosaurs.

>>8573010

>See?
>That is a T-Rex with the proper number of finger bones!
>Fossil record may not show always feathers, because that's not how fossils work, but at least we have a semi-accurate T-Rex now

>>8570036
>T-rex turned into a bird?
No
>related to other species that eventually became birds?
Yes

T-rex is extinct. You want to look at the smaller theropods that survived the KT extinction event.

>>8573446
That's like saying mammals are related to dinosaurs seeing as mammals are derived from several species of mammal-like dinosaurs.

>>8570036

Yes, in the sense that we modern humans are reptiles.

>>8573078
And absolutely not surprising.

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>>8570036
Technically speaking, all birds are indeed dinosaurs, but most dinosaurs are not birds. It has to do with the fact that birds as we know them (class Aves) are a monophyletic clade contained within the larger Diosauria and Archosauria clades.

So, it's inaccurate to call T-rex a bird, since that represents a polyphyletic group. Although they share many similar characteristics, birds are defined by more than just feathers, hollow bones, and endothermy, including a keeled sternum, toothless beak, tail fan, and loss of leg feathers.

>>8571784
Just birds, and dinosaurs(and thus birds) are in the larger group of reptiles

Its funny how little we know about dinosaurs.

.. And how much money the Jews make off of them.

>>8573010
Birds are reptiles

>>8573078
>come from t-Rex
Probably not, they may be related to the ancestors of birds but I don't think they're the direct ancestors themselves.

>>8574078
>mammals are derived from several species of mammal-like dinosaurs
No

>>8574115
We aren't reptiles, we are part of a group containing both reptiles and mammals, and thus we are more closely related to reptiles than say, amphibians, but birds are literally reptiles, alligators are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards.

>>8575213
>birds are literally reptiles

They're in the same phylum together with birds and humans. That's it. Stop spreading misinformation.

>>8570036
You have to have a beak or a bill if you want to be a bird.

>>8575186
How many of those species on the chart are still alive today?

>>8573062
Birds are warm blooded buddy.