Birds aren’t just the closest living relatives of dinosaurs — they are dinosaurs. Everyday I eat dinosaur thighs (aka chicken thighs).

Wikipedia - Dinosaur

Reverse genetic engineering[4] and the fossil record both demonstrate that birds are modern feathered dinosaurs,[5] having evolved from earlier theropods during the late Jurassic Period.[6] As such, birds were the only dinosaur lineage to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.[7]

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