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Xenotaris

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Hello Scified its me Xenotaris. I wanted to create this forum to help people recognize what is a dinosaur and what is not.

Okay Dinosaur or Dinosauria is a clade of reptilian animals that have their legs tucked underneath them rather than sprawling out. They range from Cold-Blooded to Warm-Blooded, most if not all of them had some feather covering or non-at all like the sauropods.

Dinosauria clade also include the modern clade Avia or Birds as well as the extinct Non-Avian Dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are within a larger clade Ornithrodira which includes the Dinosaurs, their descedents birds, the flying Pterosaurs, the dinosaur's ancestors and ancestral cousins the dinosaurmorphs and Dinosauriformes. Which itself belongs to the larger clade: Archosauria. Archosauria then rests in Archosaurmorph which belongs to the clade Diaspids which includes both the Archosaurmorphs and Ledpidosaurmorphs.

Mosasaurus: Often called a dinosaur in media, but it sadly is not seeing that its far more closely related to Snakes and Lizards which are both under the clade squamata which is under the clade lepidosauria.

Pterosaurs: Often mistaken for dinosaurs but they are far more closer related to Dinosaurs than the Mosasaurus.

Dimetrodon: One of the most erroneous, since Dimetrodon isn't even a member of Diapsid reptiles but rather the Synapsids; a clade of animals that would eventually lead to mammals.

Prehistoric Mammals: Yes some people think that Mammoths, Sabertoothed Cats, and Mastodons were dinosaurs. This is obviously wrong but I had to include it.

Megalodon: Yes people seem to think that Meglodon is a dinosaur since it didn't live with humans but this is obviously wrong since its a shark and not a reptile of any kind, let alone an archosaur.

Birds: This is a dinosaur, since Birds are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs.

Tyrannosaurus: This is a Dinosaur, under the clade of theropod which includes all carnivorious dinosaurs, a few bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs , and of course birds.

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Mosasaurus are usually referred to as Marine Reptiles.

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Indeed but Marine Reptiles is a very broad term since some Marine Reptiles belong to either Archosaurmorphs, Lepidosaurmorphs, or Pantestudines (Turtles, Pliosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and Ichthyosaurs; whether you consider them an archosaur or lepidosaur is up in the air for paleontologists although fossil evidence and genetic evidence seem to imply that Pantestudines are a type of archosaurmorph)

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Interesting Xenotaris!

Dinosaurs incredible creatures who roamed the Earth 65 million years ago. Never had nature been filled with so much terror and beauty...

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When it comes to Dinosaur science, I do my best to find the facts and bust the myths. :)

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^Time for a test then (DON'T LOOK IT UP). What is T.rex's closest living relative?

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Hint: It has orange feathers.

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^EDIT THIS AND DELETE IT IT GIVES THE ANSWER.

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MUHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

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I'm doing it lol.

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I don't know how to delete lol...

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Well i edited it to a hint 3rd lol

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a chicken!

"Part of the journey is the end..."

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YES!

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I put it too but GG made me change it lol

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I was going to say Tarbosaurus and Zhuchengtyrannus, seeing the chicken is distantly related to the Tyrannosaurids; while birds are more closer related to Troodontids.

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Xenotaris GG said living relative.

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Oh darn, I should of read that closer. Well all birds are its closest living relatives. Given that both Tyrannosaurids=Tyrannosauroids and Avians are both members of Coelurosauria.

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^The answer is the chicken. Turkey's being a close second.

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Chickens are not Tyrannosaurids nor are Chickens basal birds, far from it. Also chickens are fairly recent evolution, now turkeys evolved 23 million years ago.

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Look it up my friend, chickens are the closest living animal to Tyrannosaurus.

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