Chicken?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    08 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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      8 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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        18 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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          38 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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            18 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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      38 months ago

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

      Checkmate evolution