Why Have Birds Never Gotten as Big as T. Rex?

[Michie]

Even the most massive birds have never reached the sizes of their dinosaur relatives​

Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on different continents and islands all over the world, avian dinosaurs have reached prodigious sizes and even become apex predators in their ancient habitats. Ten-foot-tall elephant birds strutted across Madagascar until a thousand years ago. The sharp-beaked “terror birds” of prehistoric South America were formidable carnivores for tens of millions of years. And the nearly seven-foot-tall, nut-cracking Diatrymastrutted through ancient forests of western North America in search of ripe fruit and nutritious seeds 45 million years ago. Such enormous birds almost seem like a return to the Mesozoic days of giant, feathery dinosaurs, which raises the question of whether such avians could ever reach Tyrannosaurus rex sizes.

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Why Have Birds Never Gotten as Big as T. Rex?

Even the most massive birds have never reached the sizes of their dinosaur relatives

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[BobRyan]

Even the most massive birds have never reached the sizes of their dinosaur relatives​

Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on different continents and islands all over the world, avian dinosaurs have reached prodigious sizes and even become apex predators in their ancient habitats. Ten-foot-tall elephant birds strutted across Madagascar until a thousand years ago.

Looks like a species of Ostrich

But I don't think true evolution had anything at all to do with its existence. Mutation, and variation within a kind is more like it.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Size is often regulated by the availability of food.
T-rex had lots of food during the Jurassic.

 

[FaithT]

I’d like YEC to explain how birds evolved from dinosaurs when they insist there was no evolution.

 

[David Lamb]

I’d like YEC to explain how birds evolved from dinosaurs when they insist there was no evolution.

Well, could you explain what you mean? How and why would a young earth creationist who doesn't believe in evolution explain how birds evolved from dinosaurs? That's like asking an atheist evolutionist to explain how God created mankind.

 

[stevevw]

Even the most massive birds have never reached the sizes of their dinosaur relatives​

Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on different continents and islands all over the world, avian dinosaurs have reached prodigious sizes and even become apex predators in their ancient habitats. Ten-foot-tall elephant birds strutted across Madagascar until a thousand years ago. The sharp-beaked “terror birds” of prehistoric South America were formidable carnivores for tens of millions of years. And the nearly seven-foot-tall, nut-cracking Diatrymastrutted through ancient forests of western North America in search of ripe fruit and nutritious seeds 45 million years ago. Such enormous birds almost seem like a return to the Mesozoic days of giant, feathery dinosaurs, which raises the question of whether such avians could ever reach Tyrannosaurus rex sizes.

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Why Have Birds Never Gotten as Big as T. Rex?

Even the most massive birds have never reached the sizes of their dinosaur relatives

www.smithsonianmag.com

Why would birds want to be dinos. Having to keeplooking for tons of food to keep up their energy to survive. Always getting into fights and getting flesh wounds. Its a hard life for T Rex.

Now birds have a wonderful life, tweeting and singing in the forrest. Plenting of food in the tasty morsals of the forrest floor and the heaps of insects and fruit around. If that doesn't work out they can always come and feed off us humans at the beach or local park.

I mean they rule the sky so they have way more room up there. Plus they have all the trees and high places.

I also read birds navigation is in the quantum realm. So somehow their brains and vision can pickup some sort of field which allows them to navigate around the world without getting lost. Pretty well can find exact locations from halfway around the world.

So they have got it pretty good I reckon and will be actively trying to stay birds lol.