After a certain age people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is, and I think that’s sad.
My current one’s the Anchiornis, because it’s in the same clade as birds so it’s in their family tree, and it really looks like a prototype of a bird. It had 4 wings for example, but it already looked very birb-y:
(Figured I’d just turn an earlier comment into an actual post because why not)
I still can’t believe the fact that they used to exist
Right? And what’s really wild is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Not just descended from dinosaurs, but classified as feathered theropods and the only known living dinosaurs
But haven’t they extincted by the astroid?
Most dinosaurs did go extinct! Now there’s only the avialan “branch” left which includes all modern birds, and their extinct ancestors like eg. the Archaeopteryx