Check out these awesome dinosaurs. All pretty and baller and songbirdy and stuff!
Yup, birds are dinos. There are “avian dinosaurs” (Saurischia), which have hips that have legs sticking straight out underneath them, and “non-avian dinosaurs” (Ornithischia - confusingly, translates as “bird-hipped”), which have legs that splayed out to the sides. Birds first appeared during the Jurassic period, 150 million years ago, and they’re the only surviving member of the Dinosauria clade.
All carnivorous dinosaurs were warm-blooded, and were Saurischians. One of the two primary herbivorous dinosaur lines is also Saurischian - the Sauropodopmorpha (including Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Argentinosaurus) branched off around 230 mya, but well-known dinosaurs such as triceratops and stegosaurus are comparatively unrelated to modern birds.
Giant Heron and Sea Eagle
Pied Hornbill, Andean Condor, Leadbeater’s Cockatoo
xkcd: Birds and Dinosaurs
Ostrich, Weaver Birds
Rock Penguin, Roseate Spoonbill, Greater Flamingo
Wild Life of the World. Richard Lydekker, 1916.