The Closest Living Relatives To Birds

 

                                                                          Wait, what?

Sometimes the kid next door learns something new that he absolutely has to share with the entire neighborhood. This afternoon, as several of us neighbors were enjoying Easter dinner together, he approached me with the question, "Do you know what the closest living relatives to birds are?'

My response was "Other birds?" and he promptly declared that I was wrong, and that the closest living relatives to birds were crocodiles.

Which I then responded to by saying "Wow, who woulda thunk, that's very interesting."

Later, after dinner and after all the folding tables and chairs had been put away as well as the dishes, I got on the ol' internet to check the veracity of that statement.

Whaddya know, the kid was right. Good to know he's paying attention at school.