In today's day people see birds as house pets like budgies and such, but did we ever stop to consider what we adore and coo at could be considered a dinosaur by the author? Text "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," ("Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection,"). The author claims that the skeletal figure of birds is closely related to that of a dinosaur, the way a bird acts, and finally, the text looks at the way the brain works in comparison to each other. The author has claimed that a bird and a dinosaur have similarity in the way that they are both built. The writer likes to say that they both have the same such and such features like for example, holes in their hipbones, a fused clavicle bone and other parts of their anatomy. …show more content…
As a result of the animals looking the same, they often act the same too. Dinosaurs have been observed to tend to have actions of protection towards what is there, just as people who watch birds would do today. "When scientists look at non-bird theropod fossils they see evidence of behaviors that are common to living birds, such as nest-building, egg-laying, and brooding." (“Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection.”). The author has told us that the dinosaurs have done these actions just as birds do now in the time that current people are able to see and observe. Once again, the author has provided the readers with a picture of the bones of what seems to be a dinosaur that is brooding over their eggs. The picture provides factual evidence. Another type of evidence that has been used is expert, the author is providing the reader with what a scientist has said. Is the evidence provided sufficient? Yes, the evidence is proven sufficient because the author uses pictures and scientists as a way to convey that birds are also dinosaurs. The paragraph that has provided evidence seems well rounded and
the text, "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection" the author demonstrates these three assertions. These explain the similarities and the way dinosaurs and birds are affiliated. The relationship between dinosaurs and birds is very analogous. Dinosaurs have gone extinct, but birds have descended from them. For instance, "Birds are living dinosaurs, and they are remarkably similar to their closest extinct relatives, the non-bird theropod dinosaurs." Birds are now the new dinosaurs, but they
These three things are stated in the text "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection." The text uses various classifications of evidence to attempt to prove the claim birds are living dinosaurs. In the text "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," it claims that birds are living dinosaurs because of skeletal evidence. Exemplifying "[m]any similarities can be found when comparing a skeleton of a living bird to the fossilized skeleton of a non-bird theropod, like Sinornithosaurus. They both