• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Random thought prompted by this thread…

    So birds are basically just tiny descendants of dinosaurs, right? Parrots, corvids, and a few others are capable of mimicry… were there any dinos that shared that trait?

     

    Dude from Jurassic Park: “Clever girl…”

    Raptor: “CLEVER GIRL! raptor bark sound thing CLEVER GIRL!” eats his face

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

    • jxk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      There are many decades between use of this font and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. This post is a typographical disaster.

      • JayObey711@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        After seeing Bonn and Berlin I must say they both suck. Should have made Duisburg the capital.

  • Grabthar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    When I was a kid, I had a dinosaur book that suggested Eryops probably sounded like a Buick. I have no idea if they meant the horn or the engine. One of those odd “facts” that sticks with you, though.

    • Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Dinosaurs are currently defined as anything that descends from the most recent common ancestor of triceratops and the pigeon.

      Which, as others pointed out is mostly due to dinosaurs being originally defined before we found the first pterodactyl.

      If you want to refer to dinosaurs and pterodactyls, you could use avemetatarsalians (anything more closely related to birds than crocs) or ornithodirans (dinosaurs + pterosauromorphs).

      Also fun is that there’s a number of crocodillians that look suspiciously dinosaur- like, like Shuvosaurus. Convergent evolution is wild.

      • Sibelius Ginsterberg@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Please do not listen to this Podcast!!! You will loose all your friends and family by dumping a metric fuckton of completely out-of-context dino-facts all over your social life.

        Trust me, its not gonna be pretty. I listened to a few episodes and little plastic dinosaurs started appearing in our living room. Also my three-year-old started speaking in tongues (says my granny because apparently she doesn’t now what a Micropachycephalosaurus is)

        BE CAREFUL!