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    4 days ago

    Out of all birds, the Chicken is the closest relative to T-Rex

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      4 days ago

      Fr? Bruh it can’t be, I thought it was just a meme, it has to be some of those big badass birds unless actually true and he got the most insane downgrade in history unlike other dinosaurs.

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        3 days ago

        Birds share common ancestry with Dinosaurs, and are considered Dinosaurs. Not everything has to be big or badass

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          I know lmao, but not every dinosaur is a Cassowary nowadays, some got downgraded, it’s just hard to imagine that out of all the chicken is the one who’s closest to T-Rex.

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          3 days ago

          I’m not wrong. Or at least I’m 99 percent sure I’m not. I’ve read this numerous times from paleontologists.

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      That’s not how it works. All birds share a common ancestor that was a cousin to it, so they’re all equally related to it in terms of when they split off. For chickens to be more closely related to T. rex, they would have to share a more recent common ancestor with it than they do with other birds. That would also make T. rex a bird if you still wanted to count chickens as birds.

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        I guess paleontologists are wrong then.