Comment on 🐊🐓🦖

• jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  source

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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/

    source
• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

  … nope, I got nothing …

  source

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

    source

    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 😇

      source

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, it’s a joke about dinosaur taxonomy. A statistics joke would still fit though, this is science memes, not dinosaur memes.

        source

        • -> View More Comments