Why are birds the only surviving dinosaurs?

The story of dinosaurs' disappearance is a famous one. Less familiar is the tale of the dinosaurs that were left behind. Watch the animation to find out what allowed birds to survive when all other dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous extinction.

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00:00 Intro
00:07 Did an asteroid wipe out the dinosaurs?
00:40 Why did avian dinosaurs survive the mass extinction?
1:50 How many species of birds are there today?