Chicken?

    • Zagorath
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      209 months ago

      crocodiles are already dinosaurs

      Technically, chickens are dinosaurs. Crocodiles are not, though they are as old as the non-avian dinosaurs with little in the way of evolutionary change.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      149 months ago

      Why evolve more when they’ve already figured it all out?

      • Call me Lenny/Leni
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        09 months ago

        To fly maybe. Not sure, it just seems biologically conservative when every other surviving dinosaur became birds, fish, and mammals.

        • @[email protected]
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          9 months ago

          Fish existed first, reptiles evolved from fish. Mammals evolved from reptiles alongside dinosaurs who also evolved from reptiles.

          The only dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago were birds.

          • Call me Lenny/Leni
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            19 months ago

            Evolution isn’t always a forward process. Hence how we have cetaceans and why crabs evolved into existence five separate times.

            • @[email protected]
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              39 months ago

              That doesn’t have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.

              • Call me Lenny/Leni
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                19 months ago

                That’s what I mean by a “forward process”. Often people think evolution always goes that one way you describe.

        • @Shialac
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          39 months ago

          A lot of dinosaurs died out, crocodiles are still around.

          Checkmate evolution

      • Deconceptualist
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        9 months ago

        Both are reptiles. But the crocs and dinos are different lineages.

        • @spittingimage
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          19 months ago

          I dunno, I’ve read that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and didn’t really correspond with any category we use to sort animals today.