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Get to Know a Dinosaur!

Do you have any questions about dinosaurs, or anything else about nature, or outer space, or machines, then let us know by leaving a comment or emailing us ...

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Jackson Bird commented on 17 Aug 2015

I was in a band in high school called Ankylosaurus Rex.

deadly blake commented on 14 Nov 2015

lol

NomzNoodle commented on 14 Aug 2015

WHY DIDNT YOU MENTION THAT BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS?!?!?!

Sarah Bast commented on 02 Oct 2015

+oxXORainierOXxo Tayam My 6 year old was insisting we tell her that the bird was a dino!:)

oxXORainierOXxo Tayam commented on 14 Aug 2015

+NomzNoodle dont be exited. plus this is SciShow Kids. Maybe some kids wont understand that thing

MadeofAwesome4ever commented on 14 Aug 2015

If dinosaurs couldn't fly, why can flying birds technically be considered "dinosaurs"? From the hollow bones and wings and long beak-like heads, it seems like pterosaurs (which weren't technically dinosaurs) were ancestors of birds.

tuskinekinase commented on 14 Aug 2015

+MadeofAwesome4ever Because there're more subtleties in their bone structures that suggested pterosaurs are less close to birds than dinosaurs. One of the evidences is their collar bones are not fused into "wishbones", while dinosaurs and archaeopteryx have fused collar bones just like birds. Flying on the other hand is a result of convergent evolution which birds, pterosaurs, insects and bats have landed upon separately.Bird are considered to be dinosaurs because they're direct surviving decendents of dinosaurs. They're kind of a tiny branch of smaller dinosaurs that evolved into flying and survived to this day. That "can't fly" criteria is pretty confusing, but I suppose that applies to "non-avian dinosaurs" of the past...

Rom Koppel (CrazyClaws) commented on 13 Aug 2015

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deadly blake commented on 14 Nov 2015

sarcasm