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In our own timeline, there are clear differences between birds and everything else. Birds have feathers, toothless beaks, short tails, and so on… just like mammals have fur and produce milk. In Spec, however, the matter is somewhat more complex. If, on the other hand, lumping tiny tangerines with enormous therizinosaurs seems too ridiculous, then perhaps one could suggest that only those dinosaurs with unambiguous wings, means, with reduced 3rd fingers be called birds? But then our definition excludes bunglebirds, which look far more birdlike than draks? The problem refuses to clarify.

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  • Spec Dinosauria: Maniraptora
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  • In our own timeline, there are clear differences between birds and everything else. Birds have feathers, toothless beaks, short tails, and so on… just like mammals have fur and produce milk. In Spec, however, the matter is somewhat more complex. If, on the other hand, lumping tiny tangerines with enormous therizinosaurs seems too ridiculous, then perhaps one could suggest that only those dinosaurs with unambiguous wings, means, with reduced 3rd fingers be called birds? But then our definition excludes bunglebirds, which look far more birdlike than draks? The problem refuses to clarify.
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  • In our own timeline, there are clear differences between birds and everything else. Birds have feathers, toothless beaks, short tails, and so on… just like mammals have fur and produce milk. In Spec, however, the matter is somewhat more complex. Is a bureaucratbird a bird? Some would say yes, as bureaucrats have wing feathers and use them to fly. But, if the newest genetic data hasn't fooled us, bureaucrat-birds are more closely related to draks than to ducks. So if a bureaucrat-bird is a bird, a hundrak must be a bird as well; either both or neither. If a hundrak can be a gigantic secondarily flightless bird -after all, deinonychosaurs have a distant flying ancestry- then one must remember that it is likely that hogbirds and even arctotitans had flying ancestors, too. If, on the other hand, lumping tiny tangerines with enormous therizinosaurs seems too ridiculous, then perhaps one could suggest that only those dinosaurs with unambiguous wings, means, with reduced 3rd fingers be called birds? But then our definition excludes bunglebirds, which look far more birdlike than draks? The problem refuses to clarify. While our Home Earth has only unambiguous neornithian birds, Spec possesses semi-birds and perhaps-birds with long and short tails, with and without beaks, with and without teeth, with fully free fingers and with fingers that fully integrated in the wing, and almost all imaginable combinations thereof. Some, like the massive therizinosaurs and vicious deinonychosaurs, are obviously far from the birds of our backyards. But even among Spec's more familiar-looking birds (those with short tails and beaks and no teeth and no free fingers), few are as familiar as they seem.
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