Comment on They hadn't even evolved into secretary birds yet smh

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are plenty of rat like humans.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But enough about Pete Buttigieg…

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• Jorgelino@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except dinosaurs are a huge clade with a ton of different species of animals in it.

  Saying birds are a type of dinosaur is more like saying humans are mammals, which is true.

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  • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re even more correct than you think. They’re also literally classified as dinosaurs, as per my other reply.

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• PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Biologist here.

  This is incorrect. Via Wikipedia:

  Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are considered reptiles in the modern cladistic sense of the term, and their closest living relatives are the crocodilians. Birds are descendants of the primitive avialans (whose members include Archaeopteryx) which first appeared during the Late Jurassic.

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