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Why are there modern-looking birds in the first one?
There were a lot of modern-looking things millions of years ago. Loads of insects looked very similar. Sharks. Trees and flowering plants. Galliformes (chickens & relatives) were very similar genetically, AFAIK.
Sometimes it's a case of a lineage evolving relatively little over time, and other cases it could be very different species that just happened to look alike, adapting to a similar environ.
For example, placental mammals and marsupials diverged over 100Myrs ago, and generally looked a lot different from their modern counterparts, and yet they each developed subgroups over time that look remarkably like each other. For rodents, there are marsupials that look remarkably rodent-like, with the same going for cat-like predators.
Seriously, those look ready to pinch some chips
I love that the albertosaurus looks like a cartoon housewife that's seen a mouse



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