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While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn’t even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.

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FishFace@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Eh? Dinosaurs are reptiles in any system of classification I know of.

I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at but it sounds like you’re referring to the fact that, cladistically, birds are dinosaurs. But there were non-bird dinosaurs, and what this all means for the clades is just that all birds are reptiles.

Of course normally we are not speaking cladistically. In that context, birds are not dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are still reptiles, and reptiles excludes birds.

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- bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Birds are ancestors of dinosaurs. They were warm blooded, any split with reptiles happened long since. Jesus Christ.
  
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  - FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.
    
    It doesn’t make sense to talk of “splits” unless you presume a cladistic view, which I explicitly did not. The point of a split is ill-defined unless you’re talking about a clade.
    
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PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I ain’t no monkey!

Ugh, lol

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