Science Is Golden

Birdosaurs

March 18, 2026

Full Disclosure: the team here at Paying Attention are suckers for science.

Long ago, many people were saying that birds were descended from the dinosaurs. More recently we learned that many dinosaurs we thought of as drab, scaly reptiles might have been brightly colored and were actually covered with feathers. More recently during one of our lunch gatherings, we watched a talk on the internets that sought to correct the birds-descended-from-dinosaurs narrative. According to many experts, birds actually are dinosaurs.

Behold the terrifying Chicadee Rex

The mighty (freaky), five-foot-tall Shoebill Stork

If it is true that birds are dinosaurs – and unless or until further research insists otherwise I will not doubt this – then why are they so scared of everything? I guess we’re lucky they don’t watch a lot of David Attenborough documentaries.

You surely would not want to meet up with a Shoebill Stork in a dark alley.

We hope you enjoyed this pause in the disaster.

Ed Venture
Managing Editor

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