Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about birds. That may come as no surprise, given that birds are dinosaurs. But in terms of classification, this raises a question: Since dinosaurs are reptiles, does that mean that birds are reptiles, too?
"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary biologist and senior curator of birds at National Museums Scotland, told Live Science.
