[__ Science __ ] Dinosaurs in Birds’ Clothing?

[AIG.com]

This article is a warning to Christians to be discerning when it comes to accepting creationist research, just as we would be with other research.

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[Barbarian]

This appeal to ignore the evidence is simply a denial of the facts. We see feathered dinosaurs long before we see birds in the fossil record. And we see that the numerous apomorphic characters that define birds are also found in dinosaurs.
These include:

• Feathers
• Pneumatized bones and the "avian" respiratory system
• Four-chambered hearts
• Haversian canals, indicating exothermy (warm-blooded)
• Heme that is immunologically related in birds and dinosaurs, but not other reptiles
• Numerous transitional fossils in the fossil record
• Scutes, which are specialized scales found only on archosaurs (including birds and dinosaurs) that can be induced to form feathers.
• uncinate processes on ribs, to aid in breathing

The morphological variation in the uncinate processes suggests that the constraints placed on the body by adaptations to different forms of locomotion are key to understanding differences in how birds breathe. These processes also occur in the theropod dinosaurs, providing further evidence that they are the ancestors of modern birds but also highlighting the intrinsic flexibility in the ventilatory systems of these animals.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643309012021

Birds are dinosaurs, specifically, a clade within the dromeosaus.