From Dinosaurs to Birds: 150 Million Years of Evolution 🦖🦅

150 million years ago, the ancestors of today’s birds still looked like small dinosaurs: they had teeth, claws, long tails, and bodies covered in feathers. From those earliest evolutionary steps, one branch of theropod dinosaurs gradually changed its body structure, developed wings, and began a conquest of the skies that would last for hundreds of millions of years. 🦖🪶