Submitted 6 days ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.
And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.
Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.
Is “long form video” a term now? 🎬🦖🦕🎦🍿
And the birdies you listen to when they chirp and throw seed to are still them.
And keep in mind there weren’t just large beasts, but small ones as well. People tend to focus on the big ones, because they are most impressive, but they came in the full range of sizes. Just imagine how alien our planet looked compared to what we are used to now.
Do we really know that they fought eachother though?
Maybe they were all like super chill and held hands and sang songs and stuff.
Well, we know they ate each other. Fossils with bite marks and fossilized poop with bones prove that.
Afaik, it’s been suggested that they sang in a manner similar to modern birds
Many didn’t have hands or their arms were to short. Also, Kumbaya was written many decades after the astroid hit earth
And then u tell them that birds are dinos too, and it’s like BAM! Head bust 🤯🤯🤯
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
They did not fight each other for 100 billion years. It was about 180 million years, which is just as impressive considering it’s actually true, and the billions figure is just exaggeration.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
I knew that 100000000000 figure was misleading!!!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
They were fighting eachother before earth existed. The Transformers cartoons from the 1980s suddenly make sense now.