Answer to Question #221224 in Zoology for Abhishek

Question

Discuss the statement ‘‘Birds are a group of 

dinosaurs called theropods which belong to 

a lineage of diapsid reptiles’’

Answer 1

Birds have scales like many dinosaurs and some dinosaurs may have had feathers. Scientists have discovered that the tissues used to produce scales in reptiles are similar to those that produce feathers in birds. This suggests that there is a common ancestor between dinosaurs, birds, and reptiles.