Are birds dinosaurs?

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   Tiny says

   Long ago, some dinosaurs walked on two legs and had feathers. Over a very, very long time, some of them got smaller and smaller, and they began to fly. They were the first birds. So the pigeon on your path is a real, living dinosaur!

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   Why is a pigeon a dinosaur?

   T. rex belonged to a big group of dinosaurs called theropods, which walked on two legs. Over time, some theropods got smaller, and birds grew from those little ones. So a pigeon comes from the very same dinosaur family as the mighty T. rex!

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   How did dinosaurs start to fly?

   Some small, feathered dinosaurs may have moved up into the trees, looking for food or a safe place to be. Life up high might have set them on the way to flying. That change probably began about a hundred and sixty million years ago. Scientists are still piecing the story together.

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