Shedding Light On The Dinosaur-Bird Connection Summary

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Skeletal. Behavioral. Behavioral. Behavioral. Behavioral. Brain. In "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," by the American Museum of Natural History, it tells us the main events that take place of birds being living dinosaurs. The one thing we all might think of is how, but it all starts with the skeleton. Realizing that an Archaeopteryx is very close to a bird makes sense in our brain, but the others are not so much. However, in "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," it states that "[t]hey both have a hole in the hipbone, a feature that distinguishes most dinosaurs from all other animals," which makes them more alike than any other animal. Moreover, all of these dinosaurs have something in common that connects them to …show more content…

Could this have something to do with their behavior? Stating that other fossil behaviors look like birds in "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," they all have connected in a way. Meanwhile, "the behavior of brooding the nests that we see all around us today in living birds was already present in the non-bird ancestors of birds," showing that other animals can also do it. For instance, they are all made alike but in different ways as they use examples, factual and experts as their evidence. In fact, they do stay on topic with the examples that prevent the flaws and gaps, but not enough evidence for me to understand. Next, is the brain activity in these animals. Thinking about how their brains compare to each other, "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," helps with that. In spite of their brain, “[m]ost of us grew up thinking that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but actually some had really big brains.”as stated in the text. On the other hand, they have a very different drain than us humans have, as an example, "the volume and shape of different brain regions, including the olfactory bulbs, cerebrum, optic lobes, cerebellum, and

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