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I'm in the mood to teach about evolution! What questions or criticisms do you have for the Theory of Evolution?

I'll address them as best i can, layman though i am!✌️

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How did Birds survive when other Dinosaurs types couldn't?

Also, birds are warm blooded, but I thought dinosaurs are cold blooded, any idea when this change might of happened? I'm trying to figure out if some other Dinosaurs types might of them been warm blooded, or if other Birds might of been Cold blooded, etc.


Is there any website or tracking of what the dominant or submissive traits are? Like which one is more dominant than another?
@sstronaut

I don't think paleontologists are certain exactly why birds were the surviving lineage but i know there hypotheses around the fact that they could fly between resources, were fairly small and well insulated.

Some dinosaurs were cold-blooded but many were warm-blooded. The maniraptoran therapods from which birds evolved certainly were.
Even some of the large dinosaurs like sauropods were likely functionally warm-blooded due to gigantothermy.
@Pikachu
there hypotheses around the fact that they could fly between resources, were fairly small and well insulated.

That was my hypothesis too, but then I learned that the Ratite family of birds (ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, emus and kiwis) were SUPPOSEDLY the oldest family of birds and they're all flightless.

Which I thought that blew a hole in that hypothesis, but just now I saw where they believe the Ratite family of birds came from a bird of flight, but later changed to birds of land.
@sstronaut

Yeah the Ratites are secondarily flightless but i think it's still uncertain that the flight capability of other birds is the reason they survived.
It might be for the same reason mammals survived which appears to have been a propensity to burrow, generalist adaptations and again the endothermy and insulation.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@sstronaut
How did Birds survive when other Dinosaurs types couldn't?

Also, birds are warm blooded, but I thought dinosaurs are cold blooded, any idea when this change might of happened? I'm trying to figure out if some other Dinosaurs types might of them been warm blooded, or if other Birds might of been Cold blooded, etc.


Is there any website or tracking of what the dominant or submissive traits are? Like which one is more dominant than another?

Since birds are warm-blooded how do some species survive freezing temperatures without getting frost-bite?
@Diotrephes

I know there are some amphibians who produce what is essentially natural antifreeze.
@Diotrephes The same way most other animals do
@Pikachu I believe the Greenland Shark also has some sort of antifreeze in their blood which allows them to keep moving in water that's colder than other Sharks
@sstronaut
Yeah there are many adaptations and honestly the biggest one is that most ectothermic animals do not live in climates where frostbite is an issue lol