Image is captioned: “The dinosaurs didn’t “rule the Earth”, they were just alive. Stop giving them credit for administrative skills they almost certainly did not have.”

Image is an artist’s rendition of dinosaurs in a prehistoric scene

    • Jorgelino@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Except dinosaurs are a huge clade with a ton of different species of animals in it.

      Saying birds are a type of dinosaur is more like saying humans are mammals, which is true.

    • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Biologist here.

      This is incorrect. Via Wikipedia:

      Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are considered reptiles in the modern cladistic sense of the term, and their closest living relatives are the crocodilians. Birds are descendants of the primitive avialans (whose members include Archaeopteryx) which first appeared during the Late Jurassic.