Dinosaur translates to “terrible lizard” so retaining outdated terminology is pn brand.
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Soup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
According to Wikipedia that is because the bird-hipped ones looked like modern birds and the names came before we realized the error.
Hooray!
snooggums@midwest.social 2 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be fair, some of them were pretty damn terrible!
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They’re so terrible at being lizard that they turn out to be birds…
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Was it before we know birds were related to dinosaurs at all? And while we’re at it: when did we find that out?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The real facts are the ones we met along the comments.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 months ago
The comments in a healthy social network are the only way to get near the truth at this point. I read the comments before the article at this point