Jakarta – It turns out that dinosaurs are not really extinct. There are still animals that are said to be dinosaurs.
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Quoted from detikInet, around 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event occurred which is thought to have been caused by the fall of a comet or giant asteroid. As many as three-quarters of the species and animals on Earth are estimated to suddenly experience mass extinction.
However, it turns out that not all dinosaurs experienced extinction. There are still types of dinosaurs that can survive and live around us. He was a relative of Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. We usually call them: birds!
Launch American Museum of Natural History, in the view of most paleontologists today, birds are living dinosaurs. There are several things that are signs, namely the main skeletal features and behavior, including nesting and brooding.
Before birds, this habit is believed to have first appeared in several dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.
Researchers also believe that birds and some dinosaurs have the same ancestor. This is proven by a number of fossils discovered so far.
The Cornell Lab says fossil evidence recently unearthed in China and Canada has confirmed that bird ancestors did have feathers at every evolutionary path. Well, many theropod dinosaurs had feathers covering their bodies which was called ‘dino fuzz’. This dino fuzz even covers the close relative Tyrannosaurus rex.
Thus, it is almost certain and according to the consensus of many scientists, that birds are an evolutionary form of dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
This article was published on detikInet with the title Not All Are Extinct, These Dinosaurs Are Still Around Us
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2023-09-10 17:30:19
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