It’s a notion that’s so important, it bears repeating. Birds are dinosaurs. Yes, it can be hard to get your head around. I often get people who try to argue with me: sure, birds might have evolved from dinosaurs, they say, but they are so different from T. rex, Brontosaurus, and the other familiar dinosaurs that we shouldn’t classify them in the same group. They’re small, they have feathers, they can fly—we shouldn’t call them dinosaurs. On the face of it, that may seem like a reasonable argument. But I always have a quick retort up my sleeve. Bats look and behave a whole lot differently than
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