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What did Huxley believe about the relationship between birds and dinosaurs?

  • Birds are descendants of dinosaurs

  • Birds and dinosaurs are unrelated

  • Birds are ancestors of dinosaurs

  • Birds and dinosaurs coexisted

Answer

After comparing the Archaeopteryx with the Compsognathus, Huxley concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs. This view is now widely accepted among modern biologists.
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