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Did chickens evolve from dinosaurs

Updated: 10/9/2023
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Mandy Johnston

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Yes. Technically, chicken are dinosaurs - avian theropod dinosaurs, to be specific.

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14y ago

No we do not evolve from dinosaurs.

Humans are mammals and evolved from synapsida often called "mammal like" reptiles that infact predated the dinosaurs which evolved another type of reptiles called Archosaurs. Synapsida were dominant animals on the earth for millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved. It is believed that extreme climate change meant that most species became extinct in the late Triassic period leaving only a few small species which later evolved into mammals during the early Jurassic. The early dinosaurs were much more able to cope with the change in the environment and went on to become the dominant animals for the next 160 million years.

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11y ago

of course not! However, birds did ultimately come from theropods, a group of two legged animals that included all of the carnivorous dinosaurs. But birds emerged from a smaller group of theropods in the late Jurassic period about 80 million years before T. rex appeared.

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10y ago

We now think that one particular line did. No living bird has a Tyrannosaur or a Utahraptor in its family tree, but some running-on-two-feet, feathered, hollow-boned critter was both dinosaur and ancestral bird.

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15y ago

Many people believe that birds adapted from the dinosaurs. This is not proven yet. With that, people believe that chickens are related to the T-Rex. This is not proven either.

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