Fact-check: “Birds evolved from dinosaurs”
Verdict: True (97% confidence)
The claim is directly supported by an overwhelming body of fossil, morphological, and genetic evidence, and represents the firm consensus of modern paleontology. Birds are now classified not merely as descendants of dinosaurs but as living members of the clade Dinosauria — specifically as a lineage of coelurosaur theropods. A 2024 review in PNAS describes the emergence of birds among dinosaurs as 'one of the best understood macroevolutionary transformations in the entire history of life.' A min…
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