Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
All dinosaurs are reptiles, including birds. The major clade of dinosaurs to which birds belong is called theropods. The other well-known dinosaurs, sauropods (including all the huge quadrupedal herbivores), are totally extinct and have only very distant ancestry with birds and other reptiles.
By the way, crocodilians have been around for 250 million years, so they shared the earth with the huge dinosaurs of old! But they are not dinosaurs themselves.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
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Wow, I had no idea.
VelvetGentleman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is fairly recent bird lore. Like late 80s to 90s. It takes a while for schools to catch up so I missed it as well.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 5 months ago
gasp and they were squamates