Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds?

someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Different medium means vastly different things with be chosen for. Same with water based animals. It comes down to base physics of how to live and what’s advantageous evolutionary. The obvious one for birds is they need to be light weight to fly. That’s extremely limiting. Land based has a ton of options. Water based needs a ton of fat for insulation, can be heavier because of buoyancy.

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