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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• teletext@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The joke is that birds aren’t only related to dinos, but are dinos themselves.

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  • jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and the cruel part is… Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs!

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    • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It might be easy to brush off my complaint as a case of paleo-pedantry, but word choice matters. “Dinosaur” is a word for a specific group of creatures united by shared characteristics and which had their own evolutionary history—it is not a catch-all term for anything reptilian and prehistoric.

      We have known about this distinction for a long time, and I bet that your average 10-year old paleo fan would know not confuse the groups.

      xkcd.com/2501/

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, it’s a joke about the fact that both are essentially dinosaurs?

    … nope, I got nothing …

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    • ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, the joke is that crocodiles aren’t dinosaurs despite looking like them and being around at the same time, just closely related, while birds technically are dinosaurs, just not the big lizards of 64 million years ago.

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      • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So really, this is not a joke about dinosaurs at all, it’s a statistics joke … which would put this meme in the wrong community 😇

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