Dinosaurs do not disappear?

Modern birds have retained a number of genetic traits from dinosaurs and are quite similar to baby dinosaurs, much closer between them than previously thought.

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The first two authors of this study, Associate Professor Arkhat Abzhanov - an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University and Dr. Bhart Anjan Bhullar, found evidence that bird evolution is the result. from the drastic change in dinosaur development. Accordingly, the difference between the two species is only in evolution. Instead of taking years to reach physiological maturity like dinosaurs, progress in birds is much faster (even species only need 12 weeks).

Anchiornis Huxleyi - dinosaur with relatives
very close to birds. (Photo: Michael A. Digiorgio)

'By changing the way we grow and develop, nature has created modern birds - a whole new creature with about 10,000 species today, based on the dinosaur model,' Abzhanov said.

'However, evolution with some characteristics such as feathers, bones and the ability to fly is the problem that makes it difficult, challenging the research of the scientific world' , paleontologists Mark Norell from the American Museum of Natural History added.

'By analyzing fossil evidence from bones, eggs and soft tissues of bird-like dinosaurs and primitive birds that have been found, we also see a special similarity between them and the dinosaurs. Let's eat Theropod meat ' , Norell continued.

Reference: Discovery