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Birds are the only surviving dinosaurs
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:41 pm
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It’s a bit surprising, but birds are the only remaining dinosaurs. Lizards and other reptiles are not direct descendants of the extinct dinosaurs even though they are fellow reptiles. I find this surprising because I always thought lizards were like undersized dinosaurs.
It’s believed that birds’ ability to fly, their ability to eat different types of food, and their small size are some of the factors that contributed to them being able to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period around 64 million years ago. This extinction is believed to have been caused by an asteroid several miles wide slamming into the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatán Peninsula.
The mass extinction brought the Age of Reptiles to a close and ushered in the Age of Mammals. So basically, we humans would never have evolved if this extinction of dinosaurs has not happened.
It’s a bit surprising, but birds are the only remaining dinosaurs. Lizards and other reptiles are not direct descendants of the extinct dinosaurs even though they are fellow reptiles. I find this surprising because I always thought lizards were like undersized dinosaurs.
It’s believed that birds’ ability to fly, their ability to eat different types of food, and their small size are some of the factors that contributed to them being able to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period around 64 million years ago. This extinction is believed to have been caused by an asteroid several miles wide slamming into the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatán Peninsula.
The mass extinction brought the Age of Reptiles to a close and ushered in the Age of Mammals. So basically, we humans would never have evolved if this extinction of dinosaurs has not happened.
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Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:47 pm to cbree88
Essentially, the Linnaean hierarchical classification is not really how taxonomy is done nowadays.
These days we speak of clades being subsets of other clades. Aves (birds) are one subset of dinosaurs which are a subset of reptiles. Reptiles, amphibians, and mammals are all subsets of land based Chordata, which basically means we’re are clever fish that grew legs to walk on land.
These days we speak of clades being subsets of other clades. Aves (birds) are one subset of dinosaurs which are a subset of reptiles. Reptiles, amphibians, and mammals are all subsets of land based Chordata, which basically means we’re are clever fish that grew legs to walk on land.
This post was edited on 5/29/22 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:49 pm to cbree88
I'd like to see the genetic studies on this if we're going to continue saying it. As opposed to the charismatic archaeology professors who constantly have to come up with more and more extreme assertions to keep their funding flowing.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:52 pm to cbree88
I don't believe that.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:52 pm to cbree88
watch a chicken walk. you can see that t rex is ancester of the bird
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:55 pm to cbree88
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:01 pm to cbree88
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Birds are the only surviving dinosaurs
Wings from arms. It just seems like a stretch.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:24 pm to cbree88
Gators and crocs beg to differ
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:26 pm to cbree88
Remarkable bird the Norwegian Blue, beautiful plumage, innit?
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:27 pm to cbree88
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Birds are the only surviving dinosaurs
Dang, said tonight to a friend that chickens are what remains of dinosaurs. Friend raises chickens for eggs.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:32 pm to cbree88
It was climate change that created the mass extinction! Thankfully now the world has Elon to save us all!
/sarc
/sarc
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:32 pm to cbree88
This is sounds like a fairy tale.
Close your eyes and use your imagination to fill in the huge gaps for this made up crap.
There is zero observable evidence for a change of kind as to date for anything. ZERO. This is not science. It is a blind faith. But keep believing your fairy tale beliefs that fish become philosophers and T-Rex turned into a bird. Nonsense.
Close your eyes and use your imagination to fill in the huge gaps for this made up crap.
There is zero observable evidence for a change of kind as to date for anything. ZERO. This is not science. It is a blind faith. But keep believing your fairy tale beliefs that fish become philosophers and T-Rex turned into a bird. Nonsense.
This post was edited on 5/29/22 at 11:39 pm
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:35 pm to cbree88
Assist to Kafka for posting this earlier…
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:39 pm to cbree88
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Birds
Aren't real.
Gotdammit I got here late.
This post was edited on 5/29/22 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:03 am to cbree88
Making dinosaurs nothing but birds killed my interest in them. Ancient Godzillas are exciting. Big chickens, not.
Posted on 5/30/22 at 12:05 am to cbree88
64 million years ago. Lol no
Posted on 5/30/22 at 4:30 am to cbree88
Snakes and lizards still shite frick and breach through the same hole so imma say they've got their hat well in the ring
Posted on 5/30/22 at 7:26 am to cbree88
Posted on 5/30/22 at 7:32 am to cbree88
And Jerry Jones
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