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Podcast: Animal Education Podcast
Episode: Animal Education 17 - Archaeopteryx
Description: Send us Fan MailOkay, so this week's theme is misconceptions about dinosaurs. So, before we get into that, what is a dinosaur? The exacts are a little complicated, but essentially, they are a clade of reptiles, specifically a type of archosaur, that split off and includes all the creatures that would be considered dinosaurs and birds. So yes, birds are dinosaurs. Crocodilians are archosaurs but separate from the dinosaur clade. Since birds are so different and derived from dinosaurs, they are often called avian dinosaurs, and the "normal" dinosaurs are the non-avian dinosaurs. So, where did...