The Bird-Dinosaur Connection Answer Key Did you know that dinosaurs still live among us today? Scientists have learned that birds are dinosaurs, too! Write down (or draw) the similarities and differences that you see between birds and dinosaurs. Look for birds in the Cowan Tetrapod Collection, and dinosaurs in the Dinosaur Tracks Exhibit. Image 1: Deinonychus, a birdlike dinosaur that may have had feathers. Photo: Wikimedia commons user Emily Willoughby, used through a creative commons license. Dinosaurs Birds Both Physiology: Size, appearance, features Physiology: Information that can be found on Size, appearance, features the museum floor Information that can be found -Birds’ height ranges from 6cm tall on the museum floor Similar skeletal structures: (bee hummingbird) to 2m tall -Brachiosaurus was 25m long, (ostrich) (display case opposite 03.06) and could lift its head 13m off -Four-toed feet the ground (52.12) -Wishbone -Various kinds of beaks can be -Feathers -Some dinosaurs are used like a shovel, sieve, hammer, armoured (Dinosaur nutcracker, spear, or tweezers (This information Trackways) (opposite 03.09, to the right) can be found in Time Period: Began appearing the bottom -Various kinds of feet can be used in the Triassic era (52.08) drawers of the for feeding, preening, building nests, incubating their eggs, and Exploring Information that may be Evolution display attracting a mate (opposite 03.09) gathered through observation bank, opposite) -Colourful plumage is used to -Different kinds of teeth for attract mates, or help with eating meat, plants, or both camouflage (opposite 03.08) Time period: Began evolving from dinosaurs in the Jurassic era (Timeline Exhibit) 1 Created for Beaty Museum Educational use by Madison Rafter, education practicum student. 2019. .