"Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of the birds, sharing a common ancestor that lived around 240 million years ago and also gave rise to the dinosaurs."
Scientists reconstruct genome of common ancestor of crocodiles, birds, dinosaurs
Crocs share a common ancestor with dinosaurs but no species in the crocodile lineage was a dinosaur. The two lineages split with birds/dinosaurs on one side and crocs on the other.
I am always amazed at how scientists can make claims that sound so positive, when they have so little real evidence.
In reference to the diagram from your link.....(which will not post for some reason) it says.....
This phylogenetic diagram shows the inferred evolutionary relationships among birds, reptiles, and mammals. Colors indicate the estimated rates of evolution, with cooler colors corresponding to lower rates of molecular evolution. (Image credit: Richard E. Green et al.)
What does it say about this diagram exactly?
I see the words
"inferred evolutionary relationships". If there is solid evidence, what need is there for "inference"?
Just suppose....
"You are on a remote, uninhabited island. While walking along the beach, you see “John 1800” engraved on a boulder. Do you assume that because the island is isolated and uninhabited, the marks must be the result of wind or water erosion? Of course not! You rightly conclude that someone made that inscription. Why? For one thing, a string of well-defined letters and numbers—even if they are in a foreign language—does not occur naturally. Second, the statement contains meaningful information, indicating an intelligent source.
In everyday life, we encounter information encoded in many forms—such as Braille or letters of the alphabet, as well as diagrams, musical notes, spoken words, hand signs, radio signals, and computer programs involving the binary code, using zeros and ones. The information-conveying medium can be virtually anything, from light to radio waves to paper and ink. Whatever the case, people always associate meaningful information with an intelligent mind—unless such information is contained in a living cell. That information, say evolutionists, just happened or wrote itself somehow. But did it?
The basic units that make up DNA are called nucleotides. These units are called A, C, G, and T, depending on which chemical base they contain. Like letters of the alphabet, these four characters can be combined in many ways to form “sentences”—instructions that direct replication and other processes within the cell.
The entire package of information stored in your DNA is called your genome. Some sequences of letters in your DNA are unique to you, for DNA contains your hereditary information—your eye color, skin color, the shape of your nose, and so on. Simply put, your genome can be compared to a vast library of recipes for every part of your body, and the end product is
you.
How large is this “library”? It is about three billion “letters,” or nucleotides (bases), long. If it were transcribed onto paper, the book would fill 200 volumes the size of a 1,000-page telephone book, according to the Human Genome Project.
If reason tells us that “John 1800” engraved into a rock must have an intelligent mind as its source, should not also the infinitely more complex and meaningful information found in DNA? After all, information is information no matter where it is found or what the medium may be.
To attribute the complex library of information in DNA to blind, unguided processes conflicts with both reason and human experience. Such belief also stretches faith to the breaking point."
"Stretched out, the DNA in one cell of your body is about six feet (2 m) long. If you were to extract the DNA from all your body’s trillions of cells and put the strands end to end, the total length according to some estimates would be nearly 670 times the distance from the earth to the sun and back. To travel that distance at the speed of light would take about 185 hours."
Excerpts from
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102011402?q=genome&p=par#h=13
How many 'libraries' do you know of that built themselves and provided all the information in all the books on the shelves with no intelligent direction?
I can't think of any either.....
