In the text "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection" the author claims that birds are living dinosaurs. His evidence to support these claims are skeletal evidence, behavioral evidence, and brain evidence. The first piece of evidence to support the author's statement in the text, "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," is that skeletal evidence shows that birds are a living dinosaur. As stated here, "Many 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 have a hole in the hipbone, a feature that distinguishes most dinosaurs from all other animals," this statement shows that skeletons show that a bird is a dinosaur. The author…show more content… Finally, brain evidence also proves that birds are living dinosaurs. The final piece of evidence, the author of the text "Shedding Light on the Dinosaur-Bird Connection," is brain evidence. As stated here, "with a detailed view of the dinosaur cerebrum, a center for cognition and coordination in the brain. They found that this region was very large in non-bird dinosaurs closely related to birds," this statement shows how birds and non-bird dinosaurs brains are similar. Secondly, the author gives another example of how the brains of non-bird dinosaurs are alike as stated here, "was thought to mark the transition from non-bird dinosaur to bird. “If Archaeopteryx had a flight-ready brain, which is almost certainly the case given its morphology." Furthermore, the author does a great job at staying on topic throughout the paragraph and also gives sufficient evidence that helps prove his
