Did today's birds truly evolve from dinosaurs???...tom science?

Answer 1

Yes this is currently accepted birds are actually a form of lizard hipped dinosaurs known as saurischians. There are many similarities in both the structure and behaviour of dinosaurs and modern birds eg. feathers, hollow bones, half moon shaped wrist bone brooding behaviour etc. The similarities between Deinonychus (a dinosaur) and Archaeopteryx (a bird) are many type their names into google images and you'll see what I
mean.

Answer 2

The story is supposedly like this:

Thomas Huxley was eating quail one evening while ruminating on a palaeontological puzzle poised by a strange bone back in the lab. He knew it was the lower leg bone (tibia) of a meat-eating dinosaur but smeared across the bottom of it was an unidentified extra bone. He happened to suck the flesh off the bottom of the quail leg and there, smeared across the bottom of the quail tibia, was the same enigmatic bone. Dealing with a more complete bird leg, Huxley realised that the osseous stranger was the anklebone (astragalus). More importantly, Huxley concluded that the form of the astragalus in both the dinosaur and the bird were so similar that they must be closely related.

Then, in the late 1960's, John Ostrom from Yale University noted 22 features in the skeletons of meat-eating dinosaurs that were also found in birds and nowhere else. This reset the thinking on bird ancestry. Subsequent work has found up to 85 characters that tie theropods and birds together. Although some of these characters may be of dubious significance, so many characteristics shared between theropods and birds is a pretty convincing argument in favour of the relationship.

Find out the whole sha-bang at this website: http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/dinobird/story.htm

Answer 3

I do not believe in the theory of evolution. In my opinion, all animal life was created by God. This would include every species known to exist, from the lowest one cell creature to the most complex of them all. This is not to say that different animals do not change as times goes along, but this is not true evolution as the scientists want us to believe, but simply the greatest plan ever devised. God planned, I believe, for his creation to have the ability to adjust to it's surroundings as need arose, thus giving rise to the theory of evolution. There is at least as much proof for the theory of creationism as for evolution and I think it makes a lot more sense. I find it more believable that everything was created by a Being with higher powers, than it is to believe that two particles of whatever collided with such force that it some how mysteriously caused life to grow. Life and living creatures are too complex to be an accident, in my humble opinion. My answer is no I do not believe birds evolved from dinosaurs, but rather were created by God.

Answer 4

From lizards, yes.

Read this:

http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/evolution/

"Many scientists are convinced that birds evolved from the dinosaurs. Numerous finds in recent years have seemed to support the hypothesis that birds descended from two-legged, running dinosaurs called theropods. "

Answer 5

if someone shows me something in the bible about dinosaurs , i,ll believe it

Answer 6

Makes a lot of sense to me.