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Originally Posted by moeloubani
I don't care what your documentary told you, sometimes the easiest way to explain gravity to a child is to use Newton's theory of gravity even though Newton's theory isn't right.
Birds and dinosaurs while they probably share a common ancestor, did not evolve from one another (bird from dino).
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That doesn't make sense. The common ancestor of dinosaurs and other reptiles is very far back, hundreds of millions of years ago before the beginning of the Triassic epoch. Birds evolved very late in the Cretaceous epoch near the end of the dinaosaur age approx. 65 million years ago. So it is far more likey that birds evolved directly from certain species of smallish feathered dinosaurs, rather than from a common ancestor far, far back in the age of more primitive reptiles.