Chickens are constantly called living dinosaurs. Why aren’t Bats, Snakes, Apes ,Turtles…mostly all animals called living dinosaurs if there were versions of that same animal walking the earth millions of years ago?

Question

Chickens are constantly called living dinosaurs. Why aren’t Bats, Snakes, Apes ,Turtles…mostly all animals called living dinosaurs if there were versions of that same animal walking the earth millions of years ago?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Dinosaurs are a specific animal that lived a long time ago. Not all animals that lived in the time of the dinosaurs, were dinosaurs.

Chicken come from dinosaurs. These animals you listed come from other animals that lived long ago