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• dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Though, isn’t being part of a group the closest you can get in terms of relatedness?

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  • teletext@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s like being related to your family. Most people would consider your relatives to be related to you.

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    • Neurologist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are octopus related to octopus? I mean technically they’re 100% related, but also they aren’t related as related implies not being. Depends on your interpretation.

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    • Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most people would consider your relatives to be related to you.

      Really makes you think.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Am I my closest relative?

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• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Brother, am I not your relative?”

  silently dies

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• ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually just learned this recently, but dinosaurs differ from reptiles in that dinosaurs have legs that are under their bodies whereas reptiles have legs that splay out to the side. So all mammals, and birds, with legs directly under their bodies are probably more closely related to dinosaurs then reptiles.

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  • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. Tetrapods and reptiles diverge well before dinosaurs. All dinosaurs are diapsids as compared to mammals, which are synapsids. A dimetrodon (the one with the big sail) is not actually a dino and is more closely related to humans than it is to dinos.

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but huh?

  Clearly I missed a briefing somewhere. I thought that crocodiles were from that era, or is that the joke that I’m somehow missing?

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  • teletext@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      … nope, I got nothing …

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• Bye@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is dumb as rocks

  The most charitable interpretation is “well crocodiles didn’t change in the last 100 million years but birds did so that means maybe crocs are closer since birds evolved to get farther away”

  That’s dumb because both birds and crocodiles have been changing the whole time. Just because crocs look more similar to their fossils, doesn’t mean they haven’t been evolving/drifting/etc.

  Same thing any time someone talks about “sharks haven’t changed”. It’s dumb.

  This is some dunning Kruger shit.

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  • TxzK@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It has nothing to do with if the said animal were evolving or not. Birds and Crocodilians are the only living animals of the Archosauria clade. Since birds are dinosaurs, technically they aren’t their relatives. So Crocs are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs (and birds), since they belong in the same clade and shared a common ancestor more recent than anyone else alive.

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