Chapter 1
The great feather revolution
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Chapter 2
The sound and senses of giants
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Chapter 3
The warm-blooded social lives of dinosaurs
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Chapter 4
The modern survivors among us
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Rethinking the dinosaur world
Ch 4 · The modern survivors among us
teacher The modern survivors among us
Dinosaurs aren't gone, They've been here all along, Birds are their living form!
Fun Fact
Living dinosaurs: Every time you look at a sparrow, a pigeon, or a chicken, you are looking at a living theropod dinosaur.
Glossary
bird (noun)
A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak, and typically by being able to fly. These creatures are the only dinosaur lineage that outlasted the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak, and typically by being able to fly. These creatures are the only dinosaur lineage that outlasted the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
Quiz
What ancestral dinosaur traits have scientists successfully reactivated in chicken embryos?
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What feature helped early bird-like dinosaurs survive the post-asteroid food collapse?