Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs? | National Geographic
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- An asteroid strike 66 million years ago devastated the dinosaurs. But today’s birds are proof there were a few survivors.
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Birds are exceptionally diverse, with more than 10,000 known species-all of them the descendants of dinosaurs. Modern birds consist of 247 families and 10,731 species, more than any other vertebrate group except fish. The latest genetic clues and fossil finds suggest that at least three lineages of modern birds arose during the Cretaceous period and survived the mass extinction. These discoveries are helping us better understand how birds evolved and how they’re related to each other, from the tiny hummingbird to the towering ostrich.
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Birds have certain traits which have lead many scientists to believe they are modern-day dinosaurs. What are your thoughts on dinosaurs being connected to our feathered friends?
National Geographic I think some of the species dinosaurs became birds, not all of them.
I thought is 65 million years ago !
Avian hip+leg structure lacks mobility compared to dinosaurs. (This is because they had little need, as they can fly.) ((This hip+leg structure is the reason for that iconic avian "waddle"))
Avian hip+leg structures are less evolved than dinosaurs, lacking certain locomotion, and ther is no advantage for avians to evolve away from the "previous" hip+leg structure of dinosaurs.
Against what Hollywood tells you, a species cannot "De-evolve" into an earlier state.
Flight is not seen in most dinosaurs, and the flighted dinosaurs share an extremely distant relative from their non flighted relatives.
*My conclusion* : No, I can't agree; birds cannot have evolved from dinosaurs. More likely, they both share a near pre-dino-relative that happened to evolve aesthetically similarly.
And before you laugh, in 1975, if you claimed, within an evolutionary academic circle that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, you'd be laughed out of the room.... (Some were)
1975...
Ten years later, it was being taught in schools.
National Geographic birds are a form of coelurosaurian therapod dinosaur.
Kick Saunders
What about wishbones? only birds and theropods have them; it's very unlikely they evolved twice.
When I was a kid: I really wish dinosaurs were still alive.
Adult me: I wish dinosaurs would stop pooping on everything I own outside.
Me everyday: Fried Dinosaur MmMmMm
@@AM-nz6pn Kentucky Fried Dinosaur
The disrespect that dinosaurs get nowadays from mammals is like poetic justice
😂😂😂😂
Ark reference?
me: goes to museum
also me: *look at all those chickens*
That is the smartest comment I have seen
Eating chicken nuggets will never be the same again. 😁
@@Andreas_42 Dino nuggets
i love this comment
*"ancient chickens"*
If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck: It's a dinosaur.
Quack
@@carlostheroach4596 I thought you were a goose? If you don't know what sound to make, may I suggest "hjonk?"
quack
let me sleep hahah no I’m not a goose or a duck I’m a DiNOsaUr
Scientifically, yes
Life, uh, finds a way.
😂😂😂 Thank you, that was brilliant.
It's a dialogue of jurassic park
Must go faster
@@anubhavsingh986 The way it is written. That's a Rick and Morty line
Maybe my favorite use of that line.
Dad, what happen to dinosaurs?
Dad: KFC
You mean KFTR (Kentucky Fried Trex) 😂
Don't forget turkey on Thanksgiving, roast duck, fried eggs, and down pillows.
To say that birds aren’t dinosaurs would be like saying bats aren’t mammals.
Exactly. I do not get how people do not understand this. Dinosaur is a higher rank and bird is a lower rank which is inside the dinosaur group the same way as the whales being inside the mammal group or as you said, bats in mammals.
@@archive2500 what do u mean by rank ??? Birds were pure therapod Dinosaurs with teeth, Hand claws and a tail 65mill years ago. Evolution happens so quickly.Thats the reason birds look nothing like dinosaurs now. Remember ancestors of modern humans 65mil year ago looked like a Hamster or Rats and used to live underground and look now how fast the evolution had worked on those creature to make them humans. Same goes for Birds. Birds may look different now but they were more like raptors 65mill years ago.
@@devilsstrikegaming8695 That does not take away that birds are still classified as dinosaurs. If you say that bats and whales are mammals, then you must say that birds are dinosaurs, no matter how long the time span of their evolution to keep the logic consistent. Unless, you are being arbitrary and just having your own definitions yourself.
This definition of yours basing solely on appearance by the way is more likely paraphyly and polyphyly classification. They are problematic classifications that does not show phylogenetic relationships among different groups and does not allow you to put groups in a written form, AKA taxonomy.
@@devilsstrikegaming8695 "Ranks" are groups that are designated fixed points in their evolutionary characteristics which are always meant to be monophyletic, meaning it includes of its descendants.
Once you came out from a group, no matter how long you diverged from it, you are still considered to be a part of that group.
Birds came from dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs came from dinosaurs, they are reptiles.
Humans came from apes, they are apes. Apes came from mammals, they are apes.
Whales came from mammals, they are mammals. Mammals came from vertebrates, they are vertebrates.
Keep the logic consistent.
All groups come from a larger group (obviously).
To say that people who believed that dinosaurs aren't real are just as stupid as flat-earthers
Wait wait wait. Archaeopteryx, like all birds, are not RELATED to theropods, they ARE theropods.
Eduardo Freitas true, a specific sub branch of theropods, but still theropods.
Yup. It's the limitation of our current taxonomic model.
There is also a great debate regarding what is considered a fish since some taxonomist sees everything that derived from the early fishes all the way to all surviving tetrapods, including us, as fishes.
"Wait wait wait. Archaeopteryx, like all birds, are not RELATED to theropods, they ARE theropods."
LOL
So theropods are not RELATED to theropods?
LOL
LOL
@@djengo77 they’re talking about the Archaeopteryx specifically
@@thelordnaevis4946
Um, what (if any) point are you trying to make?
Even names like raptor means "bird of prey", thus it even means "killer", and Gallimimus means "bird mimic". Which goes to show that scientists noticed similarities to birds decades ago.
Why would not they.
Avian dinosaurs looked exactly like birds.
@@kamrankhan-lj1ng just with teeth, unmodified sternums, unfused fingers, and longer tails
@@kamrankhan-lj1ngbirds ARE avian dinosaurs
Raptor does not mean bird of prey. It means "reaper"
That doesn't look very scary. More like a 6-ft turkey!
It's funny how many people still don't know that birds are dinosaurs.
I only just found out last time I went to the museum. Went thirty-one years not knowing.
I have so much experience with budgies and lovebirds and. Those things are basically little dinosaurs and anybody who insists birds aren't dinosaurs has never sat down and actually looked at a bird.
Even more people think pterosaurs are flying dinosaurs.
Well a lot of people were likely taught the (slightly dated) notion that birds are _descended_ from dinosaurs. The conclusion that birds simply _are_ dinosaurs was a more recent consensus that hasn’t fully replaced the view in the popular conscience that birds are merely the descendants of, but different from, the dinosaurs.
@@a-walpatches6460 pterosaurs were a separate group of reptiles and so were plesiosaurs.
Also not really relevant here but there was one time I got in an argument with some classmates who kept insisting crocodilians are dinosaurs when I kept correcting them saying that they are a separate group of reptiles.
So I could have a Dino as a pet. 😱
NE Kid Productions just be prepared to never sleep in again
No. You have not dinosaur, you have their closest relarive, not his descendant.
Relative*
Алмаз Загитов no, birds are dinosaurs. the clade dinosauria is the ancestor of tyrannosaurus, triceratops and brontosaurus and all its relatives. thus, birds are dinosaurs, the last lineage of theropods. they evolved directly from dinosaurs, they ARE dinosaurs. you can even look up cretaceous birds. theyre not just “related” to dinosaurs, they are dinos. thats like saying... humans are “related” to mammals.
@@rieldex among the whole history of Maniraptora they had evolved to fly only in Early Cretaceous of China, but even at this time bird already spread in same environment as flying raptors. And after disappearing of raptor-birds, they hadn't appear further. Also, the hypothesis of birds as descendants of dinosaurs is doubtful because of lack of transitional forms. For example, Archaeopteryx already was a bird, and apart some dinosaurs and birds flight was achieved by Enantiornis, that means that flight and bird-like skeleton plan could be a result of convergent evolution
I ate a dinosaur for dinner, it was Dee-licious. ;)
u killed it
A turkey? A duck?
@@TheRojo387 chicken
chicken T-rex..... hahaha!
Lmao if we live at the same time as the dinosaurs before its turning tables lol
Its amazing to see how diverse birds are in every environment. Birds that can swim, run, use tools, see in the dark, zoom into their prey, scavenge, imitate any sound, etc. Just think how the first bird species survived the dinosaur extinction and diversify to fill up most of the ecological niches left empty by that world wide catastrophe. We got birds nearly everywhere in the world and they all came from the same ancestors. I mean, look at Australia. The majority of the fauna species there are descended from a common ancestor and in the isolated continent they diversify to fill positions in the ecosystem. Just imagine what the world would have been if birds didn't survive, what kind of animal class would evolve to fill up the empty positions birds left behind?
Cerato shamo, and parrot shamo. You’re welcome.
After reading your comment, I have another theory why non-avian dino went extinct. Because they all were very much similar to each other. Lack of diversity leads them to extreme competition and may be a steroid or flood was last push they needed to be gone.
@@shubhammaurya3671 you do realise the massive difference in modern day oxygen levels ? You also do realise all of them evolved to be larger, in contrast to smaller variants of avian dinos which is why they managed to produce the newer generations of avian species. You are in correct competition is not what wiped out the non avians. There wasn’t even anything left be it oxygen levels or sunlight or vegetation for them to compete over to begin with. The only species that survived were the ones capable of Hibernation for long periods and those that were too small to be effected by the sudden drop in sunlight vegetation and oxygen. This is why there will never be any actual dinosaur resurrections.The massive change of the environment will never support their primitive biology. If low oxygen levels don’t kill the replicated specimens the new species of micro organisms will. That’s why it’ll take decades even after we somehow manage to perfect cloning.
@@shubhammaurya3671so you just forget dinosaurs were very diverse
@@shubhammaurya3671I really don’t think that’s it. The non-avian dinosaurs were certainly NOT lacking in any diversity. It seems pretty simple to me: the birds that survived were those that were smaller (needing less food), had beaks (to eat tough nuts that toothed birds couldn’t reach, and to not rely on prey-based diets that would doom toothed birds post-asteroid), and that could fly (scouring large areas for food very quickly).
This is so awesome and i am so happy that at least some dinosaurlineage did in fact survive and now flourishes with 10000 species today.
Dinosaurs never dies off they just become smaller. Tears in my eyes!
Some actually got as big as a typical Mesozoic theropod, like the terror birds, moa and elephant birds.
smol dinos
dinosaurs to birds are the biggest downgrade in the history of nature. cool you can fly now but you gave up everything that made you the dominate species on the planet
Have you heard of ostriches or emus?
I can't unsee dinosaurs whenever I look at birds.
Same. From their claws, to the way they walk, it all screams raptor
@@AverageAlien And not the abominations from the Jurassic Park movies thank goodness.
Syrinxes aren't "only found in today's quacking water fowl", they are found in many groups of birds.
Remember kids, when u eat a chicken, youre eatin a modern day raptor. Happy feasting!
(This is a joke)
Free range dinosaur
From now on chicken farms will be called jurassic parks
So the Jurassic Park raptors going into a kitchen was potentially dangerous for them, or the perfect place for revenge?
This is not a joke. It's actually true.
Sabiba Rahman because it's a joke it doesn't mean it's not true.
short answer: yes
ahahaahaaaaaahahhaahahahaha
Period.
Dr. Grant was right.
I knew someone was gonna say something like that.
Always has been
Nice information. It's a amazing how even a single species like the iaai can lead to such a diverse number of modern day species. Had it not been for some major events that wiped them out, we'd most likely be living in a whole different landscape right now. Perhaps our own existence would have been different too? Thanks for sharing National Geographic.
Azliana Lyana thank you for stating the obvious. Had it not been for you I would probably be reading something useful by now.
Makes you feel like the events on earth were made for humans doesn’t it
@@jamesveerdog2723 meh.
@@jamesveerdog2723 no, as same could be told by ants, viruses, plancton...etc
@@jamesveerdog2723 its like saying after falling on your nose...it seems like that floor was made to hit my nose.
It's all fun and games, til you see a swarm of dinosaurs flying towards you.
I have three pet parakeets and I am a proud owner of three dinosaurs
Amazing...Evolution is just breathtaking
SummerWine19 I agree. It’s amazing that an entire group of animals thought completely extinct in fact are still thriving and as diverse as they were over 65 million years ago. This is why I love science, every day something amazing is added to our knowledge of the reality around us.
Recently I’ve gone to a lot of bird stores to find the perfect parrot for me (I’m getting a little Quaker) but I’ve seen so many Macaws this last month. Like 10+ Macaws, and they never fail to amaze me. Everything about them just reminds me of dinosaurs. The way they act especially, but their beak and facial features and expressions too. Beautiful birds but there is something prehistoric about them
KFC:
Kentucky fried carnotaurus
we literally eat the most fascinating and prehistoric animals in the world... carnosaurus... *cries in tiny arms*
Three things about dinosaurs (probably). 1. Dinosaurs had lighter bird like bones enabling the evolution of the largest ever land animals. 2. Dinosaurs probably had bird like more efficient lungs helping the breathing especially in the largest ever land animals. 3. Dinosaurs probably had bird like brains which have tighter, smaller more efficient neurons making the relative intelligence shown in Jurassic Park a possibility.
I have news for you:crows are smart
Archaeopteryx was not a distant cousin of therapods, nor was it even a close cousin. It literally WAS a therapod. Birds are still therapods.
An astroid didn't kill the dinosaurs. Chuck Norris did, and he'll do it again!
Chuck Norris is the apex predator of the Morrison formation!!!!
Yes, they are. All birds are dinosaurs.
But not all dinosaurs are birds.
@@own4801 of course, but I’m referring to the other way around.
theres a reason why theyre referred to as 'non avian dinosaurs'
Period. More technical, objective, and appropriate term.
Is this a question people still need an answer to?
What kinda derp doesn't know birds came from Avian dinosaurs in 2018?
gotta remember, there are those that deny dinosaurs' existence, and also those who think the world is flat. welcome to 2018, my friend.
Heavily religious people, that's who. You know, the ones who deny every aspect of science simply because they believe in God. And no, I have nothing against religion, plenty of religious people have mixed beliefs or respect scientific views despite their own, but it's usually the SERIOUSLY religious people who refuse to face the facts of fossil/geological records in order to stay faithful to what they know. Personally, I like to think that both creation and evolution happened.
Every freakin day... I teach middle school students (not science, but still) and I have about half of students who are strong evolution deniers because their religious upbringings... very annoying to have a 13 year old shout in the middle of class that you’re wrong and you need Jesus... (it comes up when I teach Greek and Latin roots, because most of those word parts apply to science).
+Elendil - Feel sorry for you bro.
@@h.y.4371 There's also the people who don't think you can study dinosaurs because you can't see them, or some bs
i didn't like they make it sound, that to say that birds are dinosaurs, is more like an intellectual scenario kind of thing. this is not just an interesting way of seeing it, like a philosophical question. no, birds are LITERALLY dinosaurs, as an official fact.
Short answer: Yes. Birds are modern-day dinosaurs. They are "avian dinosaurs" (dinosaurs that fly - and even the ones that don't fly).
How about ostriches and emus?
@@nojusy1992 They are flightless avian dinosaurs. Avian just means bird, bird-like or of or relating to birds, it has nothing to do with flight unless in reference to the ability of many birds to do so.
LOL @ "Birds are modern-day dinosaurs."
So, when Darwinists say "Dinosaurs evolved into birds", what you mean is "Dinosaurs evolved into [modern-day dinosaurs]", no?
Can you give me any examples of dinosaurs evolving into things which you would say are NOT dinosaurs? Or, do dinosaurs evolve exclusively into dinosaurs?
Which would be more impressive to you? Dinosaurs evolving into dinosaurs, or dinosaurs evolving into non-dinosaurs?
@@djengo77 you’re in the wrong thread champ
@@djengo77 Birds were it. Sole survivors of the dinosaur line. Dinosaurs didn't evolve into anything else.
Bird Up!
my tiny birds are probably a raptor back in the days
Every day birds fly to my house and I release I have been seeing modern days Dinosaur 😮
Bird is the word 🐦
Dinos are the words
Agreed. It makes sense when my parrot lands on my miniature town.
Short answer, Yes
It makes me imagine a dinosaur singing like a songbird in the spring looking for a mate. I wonder how many species we have yet to find.
Scientists concluded that dinos also danced for mating just like modern birds do
There's something in the eyes of an eagle that remind me of a Velociraptor.
Because they are modern day raptors.
@@rhthehuman866 So your telling me raptors can fly?
@@D0g3yb01 No, they cannot. Raptor just means predatory bird.
Archaeopteryx is not a distant cousin of theropods. It is a theropod. You need to fix that error.
We have just discovered what a real, living dinosaur would have sounded like..... "Quack...quack!!!"
Dinosaurs didnt went extinct, after the K-Pg extinction, dinos decided to live in a new generation of life on earth by ditching their teeth and tails and developed beaks and feathers
I wish there was a movie where something like a made up "hidden gene" actives in birds all across earth and they begin growing slightly bigger and acting like real Dinosaurs causing a apocalypse kind of thing.
I have a great suspicion that Dinosaur at the Mesozoic time were actually acting like a bird...
I think dinosaurs have been adapted a new way of living as some sorta bird and others.
1:05. What a gorgeous bird!
I once saw tiny dinosaur footprints in the snow and thought to myself *oh my god what is this* then i realised *oh yes birds are dinosaurs*
In a way, it does explain a tiny bit why snake tastes like chicken.
It's hard to listen to the flight calls of a Great Egret or a Red-shouldered Hawk, or even some calls of various passerines like Northern Mockingbirds and NOT think of what dinosaurs must have sounded like.
The Pileated Woodpecker in the US even still looks prehistoric, in the best ways possible 🙂
Me in my head: Well, maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than they do with reptiles. Look at the pubic bone: turned backward, just like a bird. Look at the vertebrae: full of airsacs and hollows, just like a bird. And even the word 'raptor' means "bird of prey."
Me out loud: "That doesn't look very scary. It looks more like a 6 foot Turkey"
ornithischians didnt have airsacs nor hollow bones, they were more like mammals
Yes
I used to think dinosaur was more dominant but no we are
I'm surprised I only saw one comment about how "evolution was wrong" in this comment section lol
Evolution is wrong.
@Juno Donat YEC
same im happy about that but on the other hand i wanted to make fun of these idiots....
ooh well i guess knowing the truth is better
@@briantrevino9706 Stop talking to yourself, if evolution was never true then no creatures should exist today not even us
@@amn2760 That doesn't make sense or refute young earth creationism. That unfortunately, is an argument that would be true if evolution was true, but does nothing to prove evolution is true. We are designed our universe is designed and there are laws that are in existence. It is not coincidence. That would take more faith than Believing in God.
Antarctica is hiding so many epic fossils
Yes they are
Fabulous
One upon a time there was everywhere almost these. But now it had removed 65 million years ago
Kentucky fried dino sounds good right now.
Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets is solid proof of this
Kang taemu
Wow I'm really surprised about every thing just wow.
🎵 Denver, the last dinosaur! He's just a bird and nothing more! 🎵
Get to the point. The answer is yes.
Now my dinosaur sings September when he wants millet
Now we don't notice them much but in past they were much noticable
Birds are like how humans are still considered ape’s because we evolved from apes. They are also like lemurs and other primates that don’t look like monkeys or apes.
tripe
@@Dr.IanPlect What?
@@caylya7869 "Birds are like how humans are still considered ape’s because we evolved from apes."
- no, what a descendant evolved from doesn't necessarily dictate what they are now. In both cases (birds>dinosaurs, humans>apes), they are still regarded as part of the larger group as they have the traits of that group
- I want to be clear on the distinction. 'Because we evolved from' is the part that fails; we also evolved from lobe-finned fish and are within that group, but we are not lobe-finned fish ourselves, so here is an example where 'because we evolved from' fails. It's the traits we have now that determines grouping and classification
"They are also like lemurs and other primates that don’t look like monkeys or apes."
- this is just nonsense; lemurs are neither apes nor monkeys, so the analogy with birds fails completely.
@@Dr.IanPlect actually we are lobe finned fish. loser.
They are 100% dinosaurs. They are the same family as dinosaurs, the Archosaurs
They're within the dinosaur actually
@@andrewgonzales6527 "Not all birds are in the Theropod order, which is the order one would have to be in order to be classified as a modern dinosaur."
You again ,spewing the same tripe
1. Theropod is not an order, it is member of a group
2. That group is 'Theropoda, and it is a clade, not an order
3. All the birds you listed ARE theropods, they ARE in Theropoda
4. 'Modern dinosaurs' ONLY refers to birds. Birds are the only living dinosaurs, and ALL birds are in the clade Theropoda
Saying birds aren't reptiles is like saying whales aren't mammals just Cuz they are morphologically different from the traditional body plan or characteristics of their lineages
Its Cool that my cockatiel was a dinosaur
so dinosaurus is not exstict after all
sam midul yes, they are. dinosaurs and birds are not the same species.
charlie First, birds (Aves) and Dinosaurs are not species but groups or clades
Second, birds are theropod saurichians and therefore they are dinosaurs just like how bats and whales are mammals
And no, sam, dinosaurs are not extinct
and we are descendants of dinosaurus it self, right?
sam midul No
Dinosaurs aren't that old
The last common ancestor between dinosaurs and mammals was extinct waaaay before the first dinosaurs appeared
I used to think that birds evolved from the pterodactyl but no apparently they evolved from the land dinosaurs
They also evolved from flying ones too like the archeopteryx and the microraptor.
@@tank3143 Archeopteryx and microraptor didn't fly
Pterasaurs had membrane wings
Pterosaurs aren't birds because they don't have feathers and their feet have 4 fingers while birds have only 3
Those aren't dinosaurs, those were COUSINS of the dinosaurs birds evolved from
that's like saying humans are modern day Neanderthals since we are related to them.
It's not the same. Humans are related to Neanderthals, but birds literally are avian theropod dinosaurs
First. But cool Video it's Basically Instresting to Watch and Listen!
i own the Budgieragares Rex!
Yes, yes they are
Really a gr8 video....
Keep posting...
The way she pronounced IAAI😍
I love Birds ❤️❤️❤️
I hail from a country that has one of the largest avian population in the World: 🇮🇳India
Fun fact : Birds are dinosaurs
Dr. Grant already told us this. Thanks anyway.
Beaked birds survived because they could feed on seeds, one of the few food sources that survived the mass extinction devastation.
They were also small, pterosaurs had members that ate seeds but late cretaceous, while they were extremely diverse, they had become too specialized and large, smallest pterosaur species we know of was the size of a seagull which is big for an acctive animal.
All big/medium sized dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammals died, they needed too much caloric intake. Medium sized crocodilea survived due to their low metabolism and small ccaloric intake.
Big active animals always die.
''The meek shall inherit the Earth'' matthews 5-5
And the ones that ate the beaked birds, had their face evolve a beak.
Does chicken feed on seeds? They straight get animals from the ground
Dinos and birds are awesome
💝💝
So the creationists were right after all. Men and dinosaurs did live at the same time.
@helium73 *just wins the Internet for making everyone's head explode in under twenty words!*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
it's the ONLY thing they got right😟
Zebras, Ponies, Mules, and Horses were descended from Eohippus, Pliohippus, Mesohippus, And MerriChippus.
Not a mammal, not a reptile, so what are they?
AnimalsAndReports the bird is a species in itself, it is not reptile or mammal.
charlie "bird" Isn't a species, it's a group
Gandalf the Tsaagan group or class, with the bird being neither mammal or reptilian, it’s safe to say the bird is a species, with more than 50 thousand sub species and classifications.
charlie Ummm, no
It's a group of its own, with other groups inside it that ultimately branch into multiple genus with their species
In the same way that that "mammal" is a group, not a species
Gandalf the Tsaagan please look up the definition of species.
Oh no
Yes!!!!!
Dragons are flying dinosaurs
Birds are flying dinosaurs
Birds are dragons
Wow. This is so cool when you really think about it.
66 years?? So precise!
"And scientists are still uncertain as to how."🤔
They showed the bone structure but they never mentioned it
Falco titan
Wow
Oh
Yes. They are Avian dinosaurs.
"Smaller the gut, smaller the snack" like during an ecologycal disaster i guess a little theropod bird will find food easier than a trex
I wonder if any parrot like dinossaur could have made it to nowdays and learned to mimic human speech
It would be funny if a t rex was like
Hello