• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Dinosaurs are, in fact, real and they can, in fact, hurt you. Especially don’t fuck with this one:

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              “Birds are living dinosaurs, just as we are mammals,” said Julia Clarke, a paleontologist studying the evolution of flight and a professor with the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

              In spite of the physical differences that distinguish all mammals from other species, every animal in that group — living and extinct — can trace certain anatomical characteristics to a common ancestor. And the same is true for birds, Clarke told Live Science.

              “They’re firmly nested in that one part of the dinosaur tree,” she said. “All of the species of birds we have today are descendants of one lineage of dinosaur: the theropod dinosaurs.”

              https://www.livescience.com/are-birds-dinosaurs.html

              Think I’ll go with the paleontologist on this one.

              • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                I am not disagreeing. Birds are dinosaurs. But it’s not a particularly useful way of understanding them for the average person. You might as well be extremely insistent that they’re chordates. Do you remind people that trees aren’t a taxonomic group every time they come up in conversation?

                • toast@retrolemmy.comEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Do you remind people that trees aren’t a taxonomic group every time they come up in conversation?

                  I don’t, but I try to.