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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So are dragons. Unless they don’t have front legs, but they they’re wyverns.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Griffins an a few other mythical creatures would be too. Pegasus may or may not. The original was sired by Poseidon and itself was a god, but its since become a generic name for winged horses so that leaves room for debate.

    Yes I do enjoy fiction taxonomy, why do ask?

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    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Angels in most renditions have bird wings (i.e. arms) growing from their backs in addition to normal arms and legs.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on the wings. If they’re back mounted, I’m not sure they count. They don’t count for insects. We don’t say flies have 8 limbs.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They could be extensions of the scapula. This would make the renditions where pegasus appears to be galloping while flying more accurate.

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  • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Drakes have no wings.

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Almost all” means that if you pull six-legged animals names outnof a hat you’re nearly guaranteed to find an insect. Doesn’t mean you can’t pull the non-insect first try, and doesn’t mean that centaurs must be insects.

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  • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This bias is to biology only found in our experience. What if theres an alien physiology that ruins this argument.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d argue centaur world is its own tree of life until proof exists that earth life and centaur world life had a common ancestor.

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    • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sigh Okay scientist, you can look at my dragon dick

      … For science

      “Wait, what’s the mould for?”

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No alien species counts as an animal taxinomically. A similar extraterrestrial ecosystem would likely result in reclassifications to add planet of greatest ancestral origin. Life seeders would make taxonomy even harder.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’d still be an arthropod even if they weren’t a species of insect. So I guess the question is whether all six-legged arthropods have ovipositors. Sounds likely.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘Almost all’ makes me wonder about what the other ones are

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Crustaceans, probably.

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    • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean, “sea bugs?”

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t most of them have 8 or more limbs?

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  • c04511234@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Springtails?

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This feels like a targeted attack on parts of booktok. Has there been a counter-offensive, and where is the popcorn?

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