Are birds dinosaurs? What does the evidence tell us?
Are birds dinosaurs? What does the evidence tell us? Written by Randy Ravest. A large group within the scientific community accepts that all birds are evolved or modified dinosaurs (BADM: Birds are dinosaurs modified), at least from the genetic point of view, likewise, that some or several taxa of dinosaurs possessed some type of plumage. This idea began with the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley when he compared the small dinosaur Compsognathus with a "Chicken", in those years, for naturalists, paleontologists and biologists, birds were not dinosaurs, but according to the taxonomic foundations of Carl Linnaeus, the birds had their own class "Birds". But this position was solidified in 1969 (the year in which man landed on the Moon), when the doctor and paleontologist John Ostrom suggested that the similarities between Archeopteryx (a species with features of a bird and a dinosaur) and his recently discovered Deinonychus, kept a relationship, roughly, by the shape of th...