r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • 29d ago

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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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/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