Model that the researcher proposed for the evolution of flight in theropod dinosaurs is competing cursorial model.
According to competing cursorial model, flight arose in small, bipedal, terrestrial theropod dinosaurs that sped along the ground with arms outstretched and leapt in the air for pursuing prey.
Birds evolved from a group of meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods and this is the same group that Tyrannosaurus rex belonged to. Birds evolved from small theropods and not huge ones like T. rex.
The similarities between theropods and birds are the presence of a wishbone, structure of the hands and feet and S-shaped necks.
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