• @TheDoozer
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    291 month ago

    How is it that we discover bones of a large flying creature, and first thought is “it looks mammalian, like a flying possum!” And then “nah, that’s ridiculous. It was a flying reptile! Like a DRAGON!”

    Large flying creature, and nobody thinks giant bird? Really?

    • @SkyezOpen
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      271 month ago

      We already have birds. Give us flying possums or dragons.

    • @marcos
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      51 month ago

      Apparently they were way more similar to bats than to birds.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 days ago

        the wings were in structure, yes, but i don’t think basically anything else is even remotely similar to bats, maybe the fact that they were fuzzy but like… baby birds are fuzzy too a lot of the time