Dinosaurs aren’t reptiles, they’re birds.
Comment on fossils
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
Mammals are different than reptiles. A better comparison would be today’s reptiles.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 month ago
All birds are dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs are birds though
HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
A pigeon is not a dinosaur.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 month ago
That's what they want you to think.
Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 1 month ago
All birds are descended from the theropods that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Birds aren’t real
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
And birds and dinos are crocs (unlike most other reptiles)
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Mammals only got yeeted to their own evolutionary tree branch 40 million years prior to those that would be considered reptilian (sorta dinos too) which was somewhere in the realm of 250 million years ago.
Meaninng the reptiles of today are ~5x further apart in time from dinosaurs, than dinosaurs are from their common ancestors to mammals.
I think we really should just not bother thinking in terms of current speciation concepts. They could have had jellyfish like tentacles dangling allover their skin and we’d never know.
Zoop@beehaw.org 1 month ago
As someone who was raised and taught to believe that the earth was only a few thousand years old (by ‘that kind’ of Christians/churches,) this still blows my mind to read! I’ve known what I was taught was bullshit for at least around fifteen years, but it’s like my little pea brain still just cannot compute it. Wild stuff!!
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I grew up with a mix of some who shared that view. Its remarkable the box they place their God in to fit their worldview innit? Lol