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The birds are the direct descendants of the dinosaurs.
Answer:We dont know that birds evolved from dinosaurs. It may actually be the other way round. The bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs called Theropods may have evolved from early birds (see related links).Looking back in time through the theropod fossil record, these dinosaurs appear to be more bird-like the further back in time you look. Raptors are known to have had feathers and were fairly bird-like, but Archaeopteryx was much more bird-like and lived much earlier and may have been an ancestor of the raptors. There is also a controversial fossil called Protoavis that was dated even earlier and was more bird-like still, with hollow bones like modern birds.
So birds may have been around throughout the mesozoic era and pre-date the dinosaurs. We have little record of them though because avian bones are generally too fragile to leave fossils.
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What is likely to evolve directly from cro magnons?
Cro-Magnons evolved into modern Europeans.
Did birds evolve from lizards?
No, birds didn't evolve from lizards, but they did evolve from dinosaurs, a different group of reptiles. Dinosaurs are different from lizards especially because of their hip structure. Birds descended from a group of dinosaurs known as theropods (bipedal carnivores)
Will birds ever evolve propellers?
Not likely, no.
Could humans ever evolve into birds?
No
Which type of critter did birds and mammals evolve from?
Birds and mammals both evolved from reptiles.
Did mammals evolve from dinosaurs?
No. Mammals evolved from synapsid reptiles, a group not closely related to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are more closely related to modern reptiles and birds than they are to mammals.
Did birds ever evolve to dinosaurs?
No. It's the other way around. A branch of the dinosaurs evolved into birds.
How do vertebrates evolve?
fish- amphibians- reptiles- birds -mammals
When did birds theoretically evolve?
The first true birds likely evolved in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods.
Did birds evolve from the gliding called pterosaurs?
No. Birds evolved from a group of small carnivorous dinosaurs related to the "raptors."
What is most likely to evolve directly from Cro Magnons?
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the most likely to have directly evolved from Cro-Magnons (Homo sapiens sapiens), who were an early population of anatomically modern humans living in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic period.
Are there modern day ancedtors alive today of stegosaurus?
All of the ancestors of Stegosaurus have been extinct for over 150 million years. The closest living relatives of Stegosaurus are birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, although they didn't evolve from Stegosaurus. All birds are equally related to Stegosaurus.
