We all love to impress our friends (and parents-in-law) with a little ‘wow’ factor. What can be better than a few fun facts. Here’s one that might surprise even you…

Birds are really just reptiles in disguise. True!

Even though birds have feathers and (usually) fly, they’re actually just a special group of reptiles. In fact, birds are more closely related to crocodiles than crocodiles are to lizards!

So next time you watch that (108th) rerun of Jurassic Park, you’re seeing the forebears of that sweet little canary or budgerigar you’ve always wanted on your shoulder 🙂

And speaking of ‘budgies’ (no, they are not and never were ‘lovebirds’), their resting heart rate is around 300 beats per second! Yours is probably between 60 and 100.