Birds

Before a huge Asteroid hit the Earth 65 million years ago the world climate was changing, temperatures were cooling and there were cooler winters, as a result many dinosaurs started growing feathers which helped them to retain body heat. These feathers are also thought to have helped them to escape predators when jumping over objects.

During this time vegetation was also evolving, trees produced fruit, nuts and flowers for the first time. These feathered dinosaurs were using their feathers to get higher into the trees to feed.

Their isolation probably saved this species from extinction and to help them to survive the extreme climatic change which followed the meteor. As time passed these dinosaurs mastered flying, their claws evolved into wings and their long rows of teeth became beaks, giving us our modern day dinosaur. Birds are as closely related to dinosaurs as we to apes.

Next time you see a chicken look at its feet, they are identical to dinosaur feet. If you open the wings you can imagine how they were once claws, how their beak’s could have been a long mouth full of teeth. They also lay eggs just like dinosaurs did. Just think next time you eat chicken nuggets, you are eating a dinosaur. All birds are dinosaurs, in actual fact there are more dinosaurs on earth now than ever before, they just look different.