What did Huxley believe about the relationship between birds and dinosaurs?
Birds are descendants of dinosaurs
Birds and dinosaurs are unrelated
Birds are ancestors of dinosaurs
Birds and dinosaurs coexisted
Answer
After comparing the Archaeopteryx with the Compsognathus, Huxley concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs. This view is now widely accepted among modern biologists.
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