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

Because chickens and birds are actually directly descended from dinosaurs while mammals are descended from rat like things that lived alongside dinosaurs, and other reptiles are cousins of dinosaurs