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Imagine if the dinosaurs never went extinct.
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"Trilobites never went extinct, we still have horseshoe crabs"
"Neanderthals never went extinct, we still have humans"
If neanderthals went extinct, then explain gamers :smuglord:
I think that it is very specist to compare a normal, innocent lifeform to gamers.
Horseshoe crabs are not trilobites. Humans are not Neanderthals. Birds are literally avian dinosaurs.
I loved dinosaurs but having an evolutionary ancestor is not the same as being a true dinosaur.
Yes I enjoy seeing a Trex in a chicken and I enjoy seeing a Smilidon in a house cat.
You're reducing biology and taxonomy to History channel buzz phrases.
And before you ashctually me, cats have inherited their mitochondrial dna from a common ancestor of the smilodon 20 million years ago so if you wanna die on the "birds are real life dinosaurs" hill then I'll die with you on the adjacent "cats are literally mini sabre tooth tigers" hill.
I mean
Lmao they just aren't though and while I love em, they aren't.
Aw come on
Okay how about this, you can say birds are dinosaurs Mondays, Wednesday and Friday, and the other days I'll say a camel is like a cow.
But... I wanted to say kitties are sabre tooth tigers.
I'll allow it comrade ๐
Birds are literally feathered theropod dinosaurs. Look it up.
Therapods were feathered tho, so they literally aren't feathered therapod dinosaurs. They are just dinosaurs.
Try harder sweaty.
tgirls and dino facts, a dynamic duo
๐ lmao I'm not and birds are dinosaurs technically by virtue of sharing a lot of bone structure and evolutionary traits passed down through little bird like dinosaurs.
Personally though I'd argue its reductive to look at a pigeon and go "lmao tiny dinosaur" because 65 million years of evolution and divergence didn't apparantly happen just because they have dino feet.
I've flown too close to the sun trying to get this Chud to realise his redditor comment about OPs title read like unnecessary reddit pedantry that contributes and accomplishes nothing but instead I think I've just made myself out to be a science denier ๐ญ
although I do see your point, you ain't delulu
You get me
Because you literally are denying science.
And what indicates he's a chud? The fact that he's on a different instance?
And it's not pedantic or a "redditor comment", it's a dude sharing a cool fact he thought others would like.
Shit like this is part of why autistic people have trouble socializing. We just wanna share cool facts and you act like we're being assholes for it and use that as an excuse to be assholes in return.
TBF, dinosaurs were around for over 100 million years before the K-T boundary and diverging from each other the entire time. The time that separates birds from their ancestors is less than the time that divided ornithischians and saurischians by the end and we consider all of those definitely dinosaurs.
No, not all theropods were feathered. There were extinct non-feathered theropods, as well as those with feathers only in youth. All of the currently living theropods are feathered, but this was not always the case.
Well no because if therapods aren't feathered and walk on two legs then they literally are man. Omg google plato smh
Most of us are a little bit Neanderthal.
neanderthals were humans. And they didn't go extinct they interbred with homo sapiens