Birds don’t just look like dinosaurs they are dinosaurs, scientifically speaking.
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Though by that logic, we're all amphibians or something.
The whole "dinosaurs having feathers makes them less scary" line of thought is kinda silly.
If you stick a pink bow and glitter on a knife, it doesn't become any leas deadly, plus good luck getting that glitter out of your wounds if you do make it to the "I need to get that glitter out of my wounds" stage.
...it's a cartoon...
Bird genre?
When did and why did dinosaurs go from giant fangs to beaks? Or are reptiles more direct descendants of those dinosaurs
Fangs are still pretty rare in reptiles. Most lizards have basically some form of serrated beak.
fwiw there were plenty of non-avian dinosaurs with beaks, ceratopsids for one.
Birds are the only direct descendents of dinosaurs. Reptiles were around at the same time as dinosaurs and evolved independently. There are huge differences, scales instead of skin and feathers, cold blooded instead of warm, etc.
TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.
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Edit: This one's been floating around the net for long enough that I'd forgotten what the feathery chap in the back left was up to!
Hidden behind a spoiler for those who don't want to see an owl swallowing an entire rat(!)
Owls really are basically cats.
Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don't mind but others will.
Good call - not sure you can tag images in comments as NSFW (to get the auto-blur), but I've hidden it in spoiler tags.
It's not what it seems to be!
Cassowary feet
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Cassowary head
You should hear the sound they make. Thumping bass that you feel as much as you hear it.
Cassoway = Velociraptors if they could also fly short distances.
Though fortunately generally non-aggressive unless you piss them off.
pretty sure velociraptors were actually smaller lmao, more along the size of turkeys
cassowaries are significantly scarier than velociraptors would have been.
Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider
Well who on earth would be foolish enough to piss them off?
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Clever bird...
All birds are.
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