• psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    First they came for the velociraptors, and I did not chomp them - because I was not a velociraptor.

    Then they came for the stegosauruses, and I did not chomp them - because I was not a stegosaurus.

    Then they came for the triceratops, and I did not chomp them - because I was not a triceratops.

    Then they came for me, and there was no one left to chomp them for me.

    -Theodore Rex

  • Manucode@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Go back to your little hut that I had to build for you. Your age is long gone, chicken!

  • lugal@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Even if mammals will grow bigger, they will never threaten dinosaurs to go extinct

  • Nudding@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I wonder if you could see the meteor in the sky approaching in the days and hours leading up it.

    • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Fun fact: I heard that the meteor was not actually what killed them off, but rather even before that, changes in the atmosphere had already begun to make ginormous lizards a less viable solution.

      Mammals were just so adaptable, that we adapted to the post-meteor changes, even as we had already been adapting to the before-meteor ones.

        • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Even so, one line of thinking along those lines is that the meteor did not in fact kill off the dinosaurs. It did manage to polish them off, but they were decreasing in prominence as mammals increased already. I doubt anyone could prove one way or another, but it’s a fascinating thought to ponder b/c if true, that would mean that the meteor was not the primary cause of their extinction:-). Maybe it was their lack of adaptability? As in, they were fossils even when they were alive:-P.

            • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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              9 months ago

              I know what you mean but… actually it’s more like crocs, alligators, and gila monsters are the “dinosaurs” - especially since that word essentially means “large lizard”:-P. Birds are also their descendents its true but they kinda also have their own thing going on, having abandoned their origins in favor of that.

              You’re not wrong though:-).

              • Jorgelino@lemmy.ml
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                9 months ago

                Crocs are about as far away from dinosaurs as an archosaur can get. They split off from them very early on. Note where birds fall on this chart on the other hand.

                • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  They are not “living large reptiles” though:-P.

                  Likely they are referring to birds being in a monophyletic clade alongside dinos, but by that logic, humans are monkeys.

                  I mean, we are warmblooded, give live birth, have opposable thumbs, etc., so we aren’t “not apes”… but also we are so much more, so very different than how we started.

                  Also, computers are rocks.:-D

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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          9 months ago

          There were always hints that the lighthearted sitcom was actually darker than it seemed, but the ending, my god… how many kids were traumatized by that? Lots of kids watched Dinosaurs.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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              9 months ago

              Oh yeah, that show had some amazing environmental messages in it for something people thought was just silly comedy. All the Dinosaurs had last names of oil companies. Earl’s job was literally helping to deforest the planet. They also covered things like gender roles and even sexual harassment. It was an amazingly progressive show with a strong political message that a lot of people entirely missed because “not da mama!”