Dinosaur is actually a flightless bird, which means it's a dinosaur that is descended from another dinosaur that...

Dinosaur is actually a flightless bird, which means it's a dinosaur that is descended from another dinosaur that flew. There was a long time where if you were walking around the paleozoic, you would not have been able to distinguish between a "bird" and a "non-bird." Especially one that was secondarily flightless.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/balaur-is-flightless-bird

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  1. Casey G.June 21, 2015 at 6:46 PM

    I would actually think that south american terror birds were very similar to a small T-rex. Hunting with specialized skulls.

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  2. Paul VermerenJune 22, 2015 at 3:40 AM

    Terror birds were basically theropods v.2.0. When a niche opens up and there are no big mammalian predators to fill it...

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