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And just to emphasize: This is nitpicky, but it is correct. In the phylogenic sense, birds are dinosaurs. It's not that there used to be dinosaurs, some of whic

And just to emphasize: This is nitpicky, but it is correct. In the phylogenic sense, birds are dinosaurs. It's not that there used to be dinosaurs, some of which evolved into birds and there are no dinosaurs left anymore, but rather there are about 18000 extant dinosaur species in the world today, it's just that they have feathers and most of them fly.

boringg 4y ago
To be further nitpicky - I believe the current theory is that most dinosaurs did have feathers. I believe that birds are descendents from theropods and yes phylogenic-wise dinosaurs. However that seems a bit semantic.