[["Not particularly closely.  Birds are descended from dinosaurs; pterosaurs including pterodactyls existed at the same time as dinosaurs, but are outside of that category.  Still, pterosaurs are more closely related to birds than to modern reptiles.", 91.0], ["Birds and pterodactyls are both archosaurs. However, birds are not descended from pterodactyls, since birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs, a group that does not include pterodactyls. ", 58.0], ["Pterosaurs lived among the dinosaurs and became extinct around the same time, but they were not dinosaurs. Rather, pterosaurs were flying reptiles. Modern birds didn't descend from pterosaurs; birds' ancestors were small, feathered, terrestrial dinosaurs.", 40.0]]
are birds related to pterodactyls
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