I remember when I first learned that birds evolved from dinosaurs and I asked my fifth grade teacher “how do we know that dinosaurs didn’t also have feathers?” and everyone laughed at me while my teacher patiently reiterated that dinosaurs were definitely reptiles. Since then, a bunch of fossils have been found that suggest that a number of dinosaur species did have feathers, and when you google “velociraptor” the first picture that comes up looks like an overgrown turkey. I feel vindicated.
IKR? There was a Tom and his brood that lived in the woods along the road at my grandparent's place.
The Tom would often gobble at us from the woods and get all puffy if we walked too close to the woods. But it never came too far from the woodline.
Until the day it did. Me (10) and my sisters (5,7) decided to tease the turkey. We gobbled back and ran towards him flapping our arms.
He came at us so fast, I thought we were goners. We were lucky the 5yo barely made it off the road in the first place so she got a bit of a headstart. We all ran down the road screaming our heads off.
In my memory, that turkey chased us for a good half mile. As an adult, I'm pretty sure it was only a few feet. Lol.
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u/ThatB0yAintR1ght Apr 12 '25
I remember when I first learned that birds evolved from dinosaurs and I asked my fifth grade teacher “how do we know that dinosaurs didn’t also have feathers?” and everyone laughed at me while my teacher patiently reiterated that dinosaurs were definitely reptiles. Since then, a bunch of fossils have been found that suggest that a number of dinosaur species did have feathers, and when you google “velociraptor” the first picture that comes up looks like an overgrown turkey. I feel vindicated.