Chickens and turkeys, whose body parts are to found cellophaned to styrofoam trays in every US supermarket, ARE dinosaurs, and not in any abstract, cute or far-fetched way.
Taxonomically, they not only descend from theropod dinosaur predators, but because they do not present any complex attribute not to be found among unarguably "true" dinosaurs -including beaks, incubated shelled eggs, scales, and flight feathers- they are not even rightly considered a new type of creature that merely "came from dinosaurs." Penguins, hummingbirds, and chickens ARE dinosaurs of the avian theropod type, for the same reasons pterodactyls and plesiosaurs were NOT dinosaurs of ANY type.
As usual, reality is more bizarre and excellent than fiction.
Taxonomically, they not only descend from theropod dinosaur predators, but because they do not present any complex attribute not to be found among unarguably "true" dinosaurs -including beaks, incubated shelled eggs, scales, and flight feathers- they are not even rightly considered a new type of creature that merely "came from dinosaurs." Penguins, hummingbirds, and chickens ARE dinosaurs of the avian theropod type, for the same reasons pterodactyls and plesiosaurs were NOT dinosaurs of ANY type.
As usual, reality is more bizarre and excellent than fiction.