Dinosaurs were not reptiles. They were warm blooded, and birds descended from them.
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
They always use mammals for that kind of comparison. Show me a reptile with that kind of muscle/fat composition.
hector@lemmy.today 1 month ago
abir_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Birds are reptiles. Commonly, we wouldn’t say so, but they’re in the same clade. The avians are closer related to the crocadilians than the crocs are to other reptiles like the squamates - lizards and snakes.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Also people are fish. You can’t evolve out of your clade.
abir_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hank Green went off about this recently. “Fish” just has no scientific meaning, and there are fish tetrapods.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but ultimately there is a problem in classifying “fish” in the modern scientific taxonomy system - it has no good phylum to fit in as its a term that’s a bit more broad than that, but not broad enough to make for a kingdom.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Penguins?
lengau@midwest.social 1 month ago
Birds? You mean the last remaining dinosaurs?