It said all non Avian dinosaurs went extinct but the asteroids didnt do shit to birds.
>>18329533trannysaurus
>>18329533the vast majority of birds also died, they just had a few species that were generalist enough to survive
The biggest impact that the asteroid had was indirectly to the global climate and food chain. Avian dinosaurs had the advantage of needing less calories to live than their larger non-avian counterparts, which is why they were able to survive the post-asteroid impact world better
>>18329533>the asteroids didnt do shit to birds.toothed birds went extinct, they were like tiny flying crocodiles. All surviving birds are descended from only like 6 species that survived the end cretaceous extinction.
>>18329533The overwhelming majority of the birds that existed then also got killed, all the ones that exist in the modern day are descendants of only a couple lil niggas who managed to survive
>>18329541Feathers also helped them survive the climate disruption
Saying that modern birds are a type of dinosaur is autism made flesh. It suggests that a huge rock from space almost wiping out all life on Earth wasn't a remarkable event that changed the poetic and material value of every creature.Retarded and reddit.
>>18330098>taxonomy is poetry broHumanities graduates in a nutshell. Put the fucking fries in the bag, buddy.
>>18329533The asteroid nuked a lot of bird species too. Both mammals and birds had a massive generic bottleneck, meaning all the current mammals/birds are descendants of the few species that survived. Most likely small proto-rats and proto-pidgeons, the only species to survive outside the sea and swamplands (apparently a safe spot given a fuckton of surviving reptilians are swamps/river dwellers)
>>18330098>Saying that modern birds are a type of dinosaur is autism made flesh. It suggests that a huge rock from space almost wiping out all life on Earth wasn't a remarkable event that changed the poetic and material value of every creature.How so? Saying a parrot is a bird and also a dinosaur is no different from saying a human is a primate, and also a mammal. An animal diesn't evolve out of a clade.
