r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • 29d ago

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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u/Beliliou74 29d ago

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u/Winter-Actuary-9659 29d ago

Well they are related.

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u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago

Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol

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u/RavenEridan 29d ago

Nah thats cap, pretty sure that they are distant cousins, not direct descendants of them

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u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago

Tell me you know nothing without telling me you know nothing. You could looked it up first lol. Birds are dinosaurs

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u/RavenEridan 29d ago

A paleontologist literally said that smart one

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u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago

Which one? And when?

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u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago

To add to this, birds are avain-dinosaurs. 

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u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago

Velociraptors were closer related to birds than they were with sauropods, so you can’t exclude birds from being dinosaurs without excluding everything descended from the birds’ and velociraptors’ common ancestor.

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u/RavenEridan 29d ago

Ik but obviously chickens and other birds weren't DIRECT descendants of dinosaurs, that's just silly

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u/longingrustedfurnace 29d ago

How is it silly? All dinosaurs would’ve had a common ancestor that was also a dinosaur, meaning anything that descended from the common ancestor of velociraptors and sauropods, including birds, is a direct descendant of dinosaurs. Phylogenetically speaking, that makes birds dinosaurs.

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u/RavenEridan 29d ago

Never thought of it that way, thanks I guess