Well…they certainly are prehistoric. Birds have been around longer than humans. It’s also unquestioned by all but creationists that their line of evolution includes dinosaurs. The only question is whether birds are dinosaurs, and I think most scientists today would say that they are. But it’s a semantic discussion, really. There is no doubt they evolved from other dinosaurs, and no doubt that all other evolutionary lines of dinosaurs were killed off in a mass extinction event. So if we want to call them dinosaurs, we can. Had any non-avian dinosaurs survived, it might make sense to distinguish between the two, but they didn’t.
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