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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know what you mean but… actually it’s more like crocs, alligators, and gila monsters are the “dinosaurs” - especially since that word essentially means “large lizard”:-P. Birds are also their descendents its true but they kinda also have their own thing going on, having abandoned their origins in favor of that.

  You’re not wrong though:-).

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Paleontologists would disagree and it’s their field of expertise.

    www.amnh.org/…/birds-living-dinosaurs

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are not “living large reptiles” though:-P.

      Likely they are referring to birds being in a monophyletic clade alongside dinos, but by that logic, humans are monkeys.

      I mean, we are warmblooded, give live birth, have opposable thumbs, etc., so we aren’t “not apes”… but also we are so much more, so very different than how we started.

      Also, computers are rocks.:-D

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you’re confusing a word’s origin with what scientists understand now.

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      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Likely they are referring to birds being in a monophyletic clade alongside dinos, but by that logic, humans are monkeys.

        I mean we pretty much are. Aside from going hairless and standing upright how much different are we really?

        Computers are further removed from rocks than a dinosaur is from a mamal.

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  • Jorgelino@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crocs are about as far away from dinosaurs as an archosaur can get. They split off from them very early on. Note where birds fall on this chart in the other hand.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neat, I didn’t know that - that’s awesome:-).

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