Feathered Dinosaurs
The Ancients
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The Origins of Birds in the Triassic
In the Cretaceous there was a group of flying birds called Enantiornethines that looked just like modern birds. The earliest relations of what we would now call ducks and geese already existed as kind of shore birds before the dinosaurs became extinct. There is still a huge amount of controversy about how the great end Cretaceous extinction affected the origins of birds or the evolution of birds. Do any therefore surely if we do get modern birds today surely some version there is some way that some at least survive the great extinction event at the end of the Cret Jurassic?
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