One of the best explanations of the relationship between non-avian and avian dinosaurs I've seen - - concise, clear and well-crafted. I studied with John Ostrom back in the 70's and knowing him as I did I can say he'd be very pleased with this presentation.
Actually it is scientifically proven that all therapods have the potential to be feathered. Their earliest ancestor had feathers, therefore they all could (not that they all do)
This Is great! I was embarrased cause yesterday I was atacked by a freaking bird, now I can say that a dinosaur wanted to kill me! What an experience! My kids will be proud of me when I tell them how I defeated that nasty therapod!
Veeeeeeryyy good!!! Imagine onde doc like this but with 2 hours long and detailing the evolution of flight as well. It would be legendary. PLEASEE DO ONE :D
When i was in my first year in high school, science class, i told the teacher that birds evolved from dinosaurs. She said i was wrong and the other kids laughed at me for saying such a stupid thing. That was a loooong time ago (70's), but it burned into my brain for the humiliation of the experience and not being allowed to correct the teacher even though I knew I was right. Dear Miss (whatever your name was)... I TOLD YOU SO!
Thank you so much for such an amazing video. 😍😍😍 I am also fascinated by nature specially birds and dinosaurs. I live in Alberta, CAN and here there are a few sites and museums about them. The first time I visited an exposition about dinosours I just started to cry, what an incredible detail. I am so thankful to people like you, that dedicate all their life to study and make possible for us, to have a glimpse at this amazing extinct creatures.
I think their point was just linking extinct cretaceous theropods to modern theropods. Terror birds are still birds and they lived long after the dinosaurs, the last species went extinct relatively recent. They did fill the same niche but terror birds, like all birds, had a major size constraint due to a lack of a tail.
@@trvth1s that's what always puzzled me. I mean, look at the peacock male. He has long and probably quite heavy feathery tail. Why can't terror birds have the same tails?
@@kempo79 Peacock males have a very short tail with long feathers. Not the same as a long tail made of muscle and bone. Long feathers are more like hair.
Yeah, I see this a lot in these sorts of videos. Your beak is cupped, just submerge it completely in water, then pull it out. Bam, 10 times more efficient.
I use to hate the hell out of birds (except for hawks,falcons,eagles and owls), but nowadays as i researched, read and observed them, i now love them. All those years before as a kid i wondered about life with dinosaurs, not realizing that Iam actually living with them all this time, birds.
Dinosaurs went extinct because they tasted like chicken. Some could fly away from us and survived. Ostriches could run too fast. Actually I still prefer to think the event was a colossal solar sneeze. North Pacific as ground zero.
komi sar Well, not exactly. Dinosaurs already had temperature regulation long before they went extinct, and the evidence suggests they were active sort of “warm blooded” animals that also had characteristics of cold blooded ness. It’s possible that the smaller more active carnivores like the Dromaeosaurs were already fully warm blooded like birds, after all, we have evidence of complete feathery covering in them and we know they were very closely related to birds. It’s still not yet known, though.
because they are fine the way they are. for evolution to change you into something different, there needs to be selective pressure.... pressuring the population to change. and they did change from their ancient ancestors but not much. for example today species of sharks are much smaller than species of sharks in the past largest sharks today are about half size from the sharks of couple million year ago
As a child I was reading an illustrated book about dinasaur tracks. Finding tracks in the soft sediment while exploring a stream with my older brother I called out there were dinasaur tracks. He came to see saying they were bird tracks. They look almost identical. I said birds are dinasaurs. He laughed. I always thought birds were dinasaurs. I have doves and watch docs with them looking on. When we see dinasaurs I tell them they are little dinasaurs. They like it.
9:14 I don't understand this diagram since an archaeopteryx was before the tyranisaurus rex. the rex was in the cretaceous and arch was in late jurassic
Birds evolved from some theropods, others were larger and evolved in other ways leading to the giants like T rex, contemporary with many kinds of bird. .
Theropod is a very a broader classification, archaeopteryx is a branch of theropod called maniraptoran. Birds are direct descendants of maniraptoran dinosaurs. Theropod -> Tetanurae -> Maniraptora -> Avialae (Birds). Tetanurae has two branches -> Maniraptora (e.g. Archaeopteryx) and Tyrannosauridae (T.Rex).
While most intelligent folks are busy making money and gaming the system, paleontologists are content figuring out how dinosaurs evolved into birds. Such a warm feeling!
It is so cool to think that one branch of the dinosaurs still lives on. From the emu to the tiniest hummingbird, our avian co-inhabitants of earth are...birds!
Very interesting. I hope you and BioInteractive will adopt a standard whereby ALL your video descriptions contain direct links to open documents, resources, groups, projects related to the topics presented. I left a voice mail. If you add $Thanks, then visitors and viewers can support and encourage presenters, and the organizations who support them. There is currently no way to support individuals separately. If authors, editors, producers, researchers, curators, anyone involved were listed at part of a visible and open "Team" then they can be encouraged as well. I can only suggest. But it would transform Internet education, if everyone who posts materials always gave links to open, complete and traceable background materials. If you wrote a paper for a peer-reviewed journal where you might get a few ten thousand readers, the editor would not allow you to publish without clear and usable references. On the Internet the links are the references that hold things together. If you send people to broken links that is bad. If you send people to "pay-per-view" that can eliminate most of the 5 billion people in the world who use the Internet is some form and most of the 2 billion kids from 4 to 24 I call "first time learners". So "open" and really accessible (not in name only) materials in formats that can immediately be used. I cannot write it all here. I just hope you all will set a good example for others, encourage groups to spend time to document what you are trying to share. If you give no links, the exploration stops dead. If you give links to generic pages unrelated to the topic, that slows down the process of discovery and self education. Today's Internet is more about learning, and global collaboration, than showing off how much someone has memorized. Help people learn how to learn on their own. Sorry to preach. This is the 25th year of the Internet Foundation. I did not plan on getting so old so fast. I can only hope the few groups I can contact learn that 8 billion people using the Internet for most aspects of life means NOT putting barriers or inadequate signs and directions. You know where things are. Today I see 387,853 views on this video page. And every one of them might well want to know more. But the path you laid is full of delays and stumbling blocks. Same for all these videos. Thank you and cudos for sharing, shame on you for not thinking it through how many people might want to know more, and you did not do a good job of that at all. Think of 387,853 each having to spend 5 minutes to search for you and what you have written. Or spending an hour to search for this general topic. You can shorten that tremendously. The cost to society of delays on the Internet is larger than the total global GDP. In lost opportunities, it might well be many times larger. Because people see something that might be important, but cannot find what to do next. When the author and site sponsors know those things, I can only say it is a shame. A horrible waste. You can use $32 per hours (US GDP per capita as a very rough proxy of the cost. For "only" ten thousand of your viewers wanting to know more each probably having to spend several hours to recreate what you know from the words alone - faced with horrendous duplication and badly documented sites on the Internet - they might spend several hours each (say 5) so that becomes $1.6 Million lost time. You can do the numbers. Once you and this group realize that every viewer's time is valuable. And every second wasted is a loss. Do you really want to charge your viewers all the time it took to find, learn, organize and try to use what you have learned? If you need money, ask for it. But do not save yourself a few minutes at the expense of hundreds of thousand, millions or billions. Thank you. If you do not want this here, do not preemptively delete it. Simply reply and ask me, and I will remove it. Asking is collaboration, deletion is a form of censorship. UA-cam can allow discussion, collaboration, community, communications, sharing of things other than a few video formats. It could be wonderful global educational sharing and learning place. But it is clumsy, has no recommended best practices, no groups working openly to improve things. No volunteers to help new groups. There is much that can be done with care, kindness, a fair degree of flexibility. You are teaching the whole world. 8 Billion people ("everyone" if a few people get their act together) . I would not write if I did not think you are doing a good job. You have the potential to help many, with just a tiny shift in your time and priorities. It takes little for you to point the way - explicit and tested pathways. Not just to sponsors and friends. But to the whole of the topics openly shared and collaborated. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
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Yeah, and in fact, the genes for producing feathers in birds and scales in crocodilians are homologous to each other, and a slight modification of the genes for scale production in alligators can produce elongated scales that resemble the primitive feathers found in some dinosaurs.
small pterosaurs, late cretaceous there were still many large pterosaurs, some of the bigger ones filled niches which birds have never filled [nothing had yet]. Pterosaurs are extinct but they are still thus far the most successful flying vertebrates in history. They also had the most efficient flight that we know of in vertebrates.
I can see the theropod relationship as a branch, but I don't know that I buy the co-option of feathers for flight. That's a pretty extreme conceptual leap of reasoning. What if birds are a branch evolved from another group of feathered reptilian/theropod water species able to fly short distances. The real issue here is the evolution of flight and it didn't just happen. Swimming to flying is a "huge leap."
The only 'thumbs down' I would give this is that it is way way too short a video. Wonderful. I also find the young woman attractive .. physically but mostly for her mind. Imagine that. :)
18:14 That bird looks so shocked to find out he's a dinosaur.
Ty J
hahah he's like WTF so I'm a dinasaur then!!!!
Lol.... he was like HUHHH ?!!!!
18:14 That bird looks so shocked to find out he's a dinosaur.
Just imagine how you would feel if you make the same discovery... You'd be shocked too.
worfoz lol I was gonna comment that.
One of the best explanations of the relationship between non-avian and avian dinosaurs I've seen - - concise, clear and well-crafted. I studied with John Ostrom back in the 70's and knowing him as I did I can say he'd be very pleased with this presentation.
Feathers evolved because scales were so Triassic. No trendy Theropod wanted to be caught dead with them (and fossilized) in the Jurrasic.
Actually it is scientifically proven that all therapods have the potential to be feathered. Their earliest ancestor had feathers, therefore they all could (not that they all do)
your hair also evolved from hair just so you know
Try #Jeril Manikkadave
😄 gawd, apparently these other serious fuddy duddies don't like jokes
@@trvth1s uh, might wanna take another look at your comment buddy
I always loved birds since my childhood, but when I discovered that they descends from avian dinosaurs I loved them even more
'they descends from' ehm.. they didn't descend from avian dino's... They ARE avian dino's!
@@glennsommer8901 You're both correct.
ElVISFX Yeah me too. When I was convinced birds ARE dinosaurs - biggest paradigm shift ever!
they are descends from non avien dinosaurs and ARE avien dinosaurs
@@markgladney1836bruh they are -_-
This Is great! I was embarrased cause yesterday I was atacked by a freaking bird, now I can say that a dinosaur wanted to kill me! What an experience! My kids will be proud of me when I tell them how I defeated that nasty therapod!
Let me guess, magpie?
@@lhaviland8602 I deny it!
9:17 Aww, cute doggy is waiting patiently for a bone.
Haha. Sadly for him, they're not looking for the kind of bone he can chew.
Veeeeeeryyy good!!! Imagine onde doc like this but with 2 hours long and detailing the evolution of flight as well. It would be legendary. PLEASEE DO ONE :D
When i was in my first year in high school, science class, i told the teacher that birds evolved from dinosaurs. She said i was wrong and the other kids laughed at me for saying such a stupid thing. That was a loooong time ago (70's), but it burned into my brain for the humiliation of the experience and not being allowed to correct the teacher even though I knew I was right.
Dear Miss (whatever your name was)... I TOLD YOU SO!
To be fair, in 70s this hypothesis was pretty new. All started with discovery of Deinonychus in 1969
Thank you so much for such an amazing video. 😍😍😍 I am also fascinated by nature specially birds and dinosaurs. I live in Alberta, CAN and here there are a few sites and museums about them. The first time I visited an exposition about dinosours I just started to cry, what an incredible detail. I am so thankful to people like you, that dedicate all their life to study and make possible for us, to have a glimpse at this amazing extinct creatures.
You cried with joy at the sight of their fossils. Luckily we can't see them in the flesh for we would be screaming in horror.
I want to be a paleontologist when I grow up I am 11 right now I love dinosaurs since I was 4 years old
Hriday Joshi
You can do it! Dream hard and work harder and you'll find all kinds of new dinos.
Good for you you can do it study hard.
You can do it. Find your passion. I believe in you!
I loved dinos when I was a little kid and said I really wanted to be a paleontologist. Now I'm in college for it lol
That's exactly me!
You forgot to weave into this the story of the Terror Birds, which filled the niche of tyrannosaurids and other smaller raptor dinosaurs.
I think their point was just linking extinct cretaceous theropods to modern theropods. Terror birds are still birds and they lived long after the dinosaurs, the last species went extinct relatively recent.
They did fill the same niche but terror birds, like all birds, had a major size constraint due to a lack of a tail.
@@trvth1s that's what always puzzled me. I mean, look at the peacock male. He has long and probably quite heavy feathery tail. Why can't terror birds have the same tails?
@@kempo79 Peacock males have a very short tail with long feathers. Not the same as a long tail made of muscle and bone. Long feathers are more like hair.
Had to watch a video from this channel for school but now I'm invested and watching everything from the channel
seeing an animation of a dinosaur courting ritual is BLOWING MY MIND
2:06 She's holding my fave animal of all time... I am so jealous.
Fantastic and remarkable explanation. One trillion thanks for your videos and efforts.
You're very welcome!
What a lovely and intelligent documentary
Sooo what you saying is a T-rex taste like chicken ☺
even crocodiles do
same with humans.
no, you taste like chicken to him!!!
Probably more like ostrich or emu...
Noodly Appendage
Human Flesh taste like 75% Pork & 25% Beef, yum!
Awesome video!!! Thank you very much and congratulations on such an incredible work!!
13:26 The water isn't even going into the mouths in the model 😂
Yeah, I see this a lot in these sorts of videos. Your beak is cupped, just submerge it completely in water, then pull it out. Bam, 10 times more efficient.
I use to hate the hell out of birds (except for hawks,falcons,eagles and owls), but nowadays as i researched, read and observed them, i now love them. All those years before as a kid i wondered about life with dinosaurs, not realizing that Iam actually living with them all this time, birds.
yes just how bats are mammals birds are dinosaurs
Many thanks for a clear, concise and visual explanation on the evolution of birds from dinosaurs.
I commend the graphics. It's amazing.
What a fantastic video! Really well made!
Your face is really well made also
@@tommysuhlami6241 SIMP
So informative! Thank you so much for this. It really is interesting how birds came to be!
i can't unsee all dinos now as looking like little nugget baby birds. with their fuzzy sticking out feathers and it makes them adorable.
i had to watch this vid for a science paper but dude i actually liked it and found it rlly interesting 😳
dinosaurs are still with us !!! we just call tham Birds👼👼
Preach
but not all birds taste nice believe me some are even piousness
Except chicken please dont eat birds. They are beautiful and i have a parakket. Eating birds just upsetting me 😟😟
Dinosaurs went extinct because they tasted like chicken. Some could fly away from us and survived. Ostriches could run too fast.
Actually I still prefer to think the event was a colossal solar sneeze. North Pacific as ground zero.
Wow there is stunning diversity of Birds and there is more than 10,400 birds species
Literally this video is so educational and interesting. Made me love my master's subject .
Great video! Thanks for posting.
Beautifully constructed, easy to listen to and watch video. Thank you :)
Great video. I really enjoyed it.
That's truly awesome to know, great vid!
11:23 When my teacher calls on me in class
*surprised eagle face*
16:29 I initially saw this as *a duck as large as a shrimp boat!*
id love to learn about how internal temperature regulation developed in dinosaurs and birds
well, after meteor hit and global climate catastrophe u either develop self temperature control or get extinct
komi sar
Well, not exactly.
Dinosaurs already had temperature regulation long before they went extinct, and the evidence suggests they were active sort of “warm blooded” animals that also had characteristics of cold blooded ness.
It’s possible that the smaller more active carnivores like the Dromaeosaurs were already fully warm blooded like birds, after all, we have evidence of complete feathery covering in them and we know they were very closely related to birds.
It’s still not yet known, though.
Uggghhh my ornithophobia was killing me while watching, but this was so damn interesting.
Why the fear?
Next time you watch a lovely dove you just have to remember it's a tiny velociraptor walking towards you. Fascinating!!! 😈
Does anyone else watch these for fun? I've seen these videos countless times
9:50 don't try to fool me, we all know that's an old banana
Lol
For one example, why did sharks not long ago evolve into something else?
because they are fine the way they are.
for evolution to change you into something different, there needs to be selective pressure.... pressuring the population to change.
and they did change from their ancient ancestors but not much.
for example today species of sharks are much smaller than species of sharks in the past
largest sharks today are about half size from the sharks of couple million year ago
Well made and informative. Thank you.
The differences between bird and pterosaur wings are fascinating.
POV: Your doing online school
Pov: you always loved movie day at school and then you got hooked on this crap
You are = You’re, as in, you’re welcome for this correction.
simply wonderful . congrats !
Many thanks!
As a child I was reading an illustrated book about dinasaur tracks.
Finding tracks in the soft sediment while exploring a stream with my older brother I called out there were dinasaur tracks.
He came to see saying they were bird tracks.
They look almost identical.
I said birds are dinasaurs. He laughed.
I always thought birds were dinasaurs.
I have doves and watch docs with them looking on. When we see dinasaurs I tell them they are little dinasaurs. They like it.
Thank you for sharing such an informative video.👍
The marvels of DNA.
One of the best!
“Several different groups have wings” it’s three, only three extant groups have wings that can be use for powered flight.
several means more than two but not many, nothing wrong with that statement.
18:18 an unnecessary eagle sound for griffon/bearded vultures' soaring footage.
Not even an eagle, but a freaking red-tailed hawk's sound!
Great video! thank you a lot for the precious information!
Beautiful video
Avian Dinosaurs are beautiful, multifaceted animals. Here's hoping they'll always be with us.
Thanks for sharing. Awesome video
Amazing science. Thanks so much.
Really good!
Awesome video!! Thanks!!
Amazing video
Thanks!
9:14 I don't understand this diagram since an archaeopteryx was before the tyranisaurus rex. the rex was in the cretaceous and arch was in late jurassic
Birds evolved from some theropods, others were larger and evolved in other ways leading to the giants like T rex, contemporary with many kinds of bird. .
Theropod is a very a broader classification, archaeopteryx is a branch of theropod called maniraptoran. Birds are direct descendants of maniraptoran dinosaurs. Theropod -> Tetanurae -> Maniraptora -> Avialae (Birds). Tetanurae has two branches -> Maniraptora (e.g. Archaeopteryx) and Tyrannosauridae (T.Rex).
My mom sometimes called me "bird brain."
That's actually a compliment. Avian dinosaurs pack much brain complexity into their little heads. They are smarter than generally given credit for.
Science! IT IS AMAZING!
Very interesting fact .thanks
While most intelligent folks are busy making money and gaming the system, paleontologists are content figuring out how dinosaurs evolved into birds. Such a warm feeling!
It is so cool to think that one branch of the dinosaurs still lives on. From the emu to the tiniest hummingbird, our avian co-inhabitants of earth are...birds!
This was excellent!
Oh yeah, man. Hey, I got this bridge for sale!
What about Aussie birds, I heard in recent times there is research on mamy of the worlds birds originally migrated from Oz.
a very informative and amazing video regarding the fossil bird
From now on when trying some new food for the first time, when describing it I’m gonna say it “tastes like dinosaur”.
I love dinosaurs and birds.😍🥰🦕🦖🐧🐦🕊🦅🐓🦃🐔🦩🦉🦢🦆🐣🐤🐥
So how long could a massive dino bird have survived and do we have the last dragon story yet
So good ❤️ loved it.
Birds are reptiles
Well on an evolutionary point of view they are
And reptiles are modified amphibians who themself are modified fish
Even mammals are reptiles 😂
As they now think that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Well is it possible that dinosaurs had a dawn chorus?
BIOL 300 gang (we are watching this and doing a worksheet).
2:23 I wish someone looked at me the way that bird looks at the lady
Real samurais drink strawberry milk May be adopt a parrot. They are amazing creatures 😉. Pineapple conures are extremely sweet.
I know how you felt, bro!!
It was watching at her neck. That bird wanted to kill the lady... Not my ideal of romance, tbh.
Now we just need someone to re evolve a bird into something like a dinosaur
Very amazing, interesting and informative.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks for this
You're welcome
Incredible!
AMAZING ❤
What kind of bird is that at 17:27?
Birds are perfect magic ❤️the most amazing animal on Earth 🌎
Great, just great video!
Which museums are the fossils at???
Very interesting. I hope you and BioInteractive will adopt a standard whereby ALL your video descriptions contain direct links to open documents, resources, groups, projects related to the topics presented. I left a voice mail. If you add $Thanks, then visitors and viewers can support and encourage presenters, and the organizations who support them. There is currently no way to support individuals separately. If authors, editors, producers, researchers, curators, anyone involved were listed at part of a visible and open "Team" then they can be encouraged as well. I can only suggest. But it would transform Internet education, if everyone who posts materials always gave links to open, complete and traceable background materials.
If you wrote a paper for a peer-reviewed journal where you might get a few ten thousand readers, the editor would not allow you to publish without clear and usable references. On the Internet the links are the references that hold things together. If you send people to broken links that is bad. If you send people to "pay-per-view" that can eliminate most of the 5 billion people in the world who use the Internet is some form and most of the 2 billion kids from 4 to 24 I call "first time learners". So "open" and really accessible (not in name only) materials in formats that can immediately be used.
I cannot write it all here. I just hope you all will set a good example for others, encourage groups to spend time to document what you are trying to share. If you give no links, the exploration stops dead. If you give links to generic pages unrelated to the topic, that slows down the process of discovery and self education. Today's Internet is more about learning, and global collaboration, than showing off how much someone has memorized. Help people learn how to learn on their own.
Sorry to preach. This is the 25th year of the Internet Foundation. I did not plan on getting so old so fast. I can only hope the few groups I can contact learn that 8 billion people using the Internet for most aspects of life means NOT putting barriers or inadequate signs and directions. You know where things are. Today I see 387,853 views on this video page. And every one of them might well want to know more. But the path you laid is full of delays and stumbling blocks. Same for all these videos. Thank you and cudos for sharing, shame on you for not thinking it through how many people might want to know more, and you did not do a good job of that at all.
Think of 387,853 each having to spend 5 minutes to search for you and what you have written. Or spending an hour to search for this general topic. You can shorten that tremendously. The cost to society of delays on the Internet is larger than the total global GDP. In lost opportunities, it might well be many times larger. Because people see something that might be important, but cannot find what to do next. When the author and site sponsors know those things, I can only say it is a shame. A horrible waste. You can use $32 per hours (US GDP per capita as a very rough proxy of the cost. For "only" ten thousand of your viewers wanting to know more each probably having to spend several hours to recreate what you know from the words alone - faced with horrendous duplication and badly documented sites on the Internet - they might spend several hours each (say 5) so that becomes $1.6 Million lost time. You can do the numbers. Once you and this group realize that every viewer's time is valuable. And every second wasted is a loss. Do you really want to charge your viewers all the time it took to find, learn, organize and try to use what you have learned? If you need money, ask for it. But do not save yourself a few minutes at the expense of hundreds of thousand, millions or billions. Thank you.
If you do not want this here, do not preemptively delete it. Simply reply and ask me, and I will remove it. Asking is collaboration, deletion is a form of censorship. UA-cam can allow discussion, collaboration, community, communications, sharing of things other than a few video formats. It could be wonderful global educational sharing and learning place. But it is clumsy, has no recommended best practices, no groups working openly to improve things. No volunteers to help new groups. There is much that can be done with care, kindness, a fair degree of flexibility. You are teaching the whole world. 8 Billion people ("everyone" if a few people get their act together) .
I would not write if I did not think you are doing a good job. You have the potential to help many, with just a tiny shift in your time and priorities. It takes little for you to point the way - explicit and tested pathways. Not just to sponsors and friends. But to the whole of the topics openly shared and collaborated.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
All of our UA-cam videos are also streamable (and downloadable) from our website, www.biointeractive.org, which also includes background and supporting material, including references.
Do the genes that create scales in a reptiles have any resemblance to genes that create feathers in birds?
yes, and those are the same genes that create hair [fur] in mammals [fur and hair are the same thing].
Birds still have scales on their leg.
Yeah, and in fact, the genes for producing feathers in birds and scales in crocodilians are homologous to each other, and a slight modification of the genes for scale production in alligators can produce elongated scales that resemble the primitive feathers found in some dinosaurs.
Genes can work in different order and timing and create drastic changes.
So when I eating chicken i literally eating dinosaur. Dinosaur nuggets
The oxygenation benefit of dinosaurs' hollow bones lends further evidence of endothermy.
Everyone should own a macaw, blue & gold, scarlet or blue and you'll learn first hand the evolution of the birds.
well look at that dinosaurs/birds are the most beautiful animals alive today
Origin of birds is simple. Julia Clarke and i mated.
Birds replaced pterosaurs like USB kicked hard disks out of market
small pterosaurs, late cretaceous there were still many large pterosaurs, some of the bigger ones filled niches which birds have never filled [nothing had yet].
Pterosaurs are extinct but they are still thus far the most successful flying vertebrates in history. They also had the most efficient flight that we know of in vertebrates.
what kind of bird is that during the end credits?
i believe its a falcon
spectacular
I can see the theropod relationship as a branch, but I don't know that I buy the co-option of feathers for flight. That's a pretty extreme conceptual leap of reasoning. What if birds are a branch evolved from another group of feathered reptilian/theropod water species able to fly short distances. The real issue here is the evolution of flight and it didn't just happen. Swimming to flying is a "huge leap."
archeopteryx was likely a glider it did not have the chestbone for powered flight at least for long distances
Early birds that "flied" well they didnt really fly they glided and gradually they adapted for actual powered flight
I just had dinosaur soup for lunch.
So i've been eating dinosaurs all this while...
Around 12 minutes I was like finally, feathered dinosaurs
The only 'thumbs down' I would give this is that it is way way too short a video. Wonderful. I also find the young woman attractive .. physically but mostly for her mind. Imagine that. :)
But when did the bird's beak appear??
the beak's always been there . I mean, frikkin Triceratops had a beak, as did Duckbilled dinosaurs and many many species of extinct dinos